When George Monbiot sat down to pen his column for Tuesday's edition of the Guardian, This is indeed a class war, and the campaign against the Aga starts here, I guarantee the last thing on his mind was how his words would throw the life of this Girl by the Aga into utter turmoil. I knew something was up at 6am when my phone began ringing. 'It's an outrage', said the rather outraged sounding lady on the phone. You have to do something. Thinking perhaps she had the wrong number, I stumbled down the stairs and put the kettle on the Aga, as I made soothing noises down the phone.

She offered to read the offending piece to me, as I sipped my Earl Grey and switched my Mac on. Immediately the emails began flooding in. 36 on the subject popped into my inbox and it was not yet 6.30am.

Bleary eyed I read the Guardian piece for myself and knew that it wouldn't stop there. I scanned my diary and wondered what I should cancel as it was sure to be a busy day. By 9am the phone was ringing off the hook as newspapers around the country wanted to know how Aga would respond and enraged Aga owners asking pretty much the same question.

One woman rang to tell me that having read the Guardian religiously since her university days, she had just rung the newsagents to cancel her delivery. As I put down the phone it rang again and the man on the line said he thought George was a traitor to his country. On and on in went late into the evening.

Mid-afternoon I visited the Guardian's website to see what comments were appearing on the subject and found there were hundreds. I cannot think of another product that would inspire such a fierce loyalty from its fans.

Wednesday morning's newspapers landed on my doormat with a heavy thud and once again I sat at the kitchen table, kettle boiling away on the Aga as I read the Telegraph piece titled We must keep our Agas burning, which had me laughing and nodding in equal measure. One bit that resonated hugely was the line that began, 'Aga is more than a cooker it is a symbol of our heritage'. In a world of disposable products, made in far off lands a lot of people find the British-made Aga a national treasure, so it was rather nice to see that in print.

I also think the writer, Judith Woods', suggestion that questions should be asked in the house, was an inspired one. Particularly when she went on to say, 'Questions like: "Wouldn't it be cosier in here if we had a nice racing-green Aga in the corner?" And it would. Of course it would.'

I didn't get to read the Standard until late afternoon as living in the depths of north Norfolk it's a little tricky to get hold of. When I did though, I thought it painted a picture of a life not dissimilar to mine, particularly the bit about Aga owners using their cookers to heat one room in a freezing house and the line that said, 'it is for everything from defrosting the dog, to making the toast'.

On Thursday morning I went to visit the lovely people at Aga and we all gathered around the radio to listen to Amy Willcock going head to head with George Monbiot on the Jeremy Vine show.  Amy was characteristically brilliant and summed up beautifully the feelings of Aga owners everywhere.

Today, the matter was brought neatly to a close with a response in the Guardian from Aga's Chief Exec William McGrath. The piece, that ran in the Response column exposed George Monbiot's views as outdated and quietly and confidently defended the Aga's impeccable green credentials. It ended with William saying, 'surely we don't need a class war but a spirit of solidarity.' And I, and the many people that have come out in support of the Aga couldn't agree more.