Well, no, actually, I have yet to try to cook a trout in Bleak Towers! But Bleak Towers did provide an amazing experience in how lifts do not work after the fire alarm goes off, one spring evening as I returned from a day of studying and research at the university. I was met by the sight of the fire brigade pulling away, clusters of people standing around outside of Bleak Towers, and the incessant wail of an alarm.