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[tjwmason]

So I was dozing in bed this morning when the radio suddenly went off - it switches off on the timer shortly after midday so I thought I had over-slept by a long way. But then I saw that the display had gone blank...it was a damn power-cut.

I called the electricity company (using my mobile, the house 'phones being cordless don't work), and was told that it was going to be a couple of hours before they'd know any more - but a technician was on the way.

This being about 9 a.m. on a Saturday I went back to bed...

Shower won't work, radio won't work, internets won't work.

But then I realised that the stove is gas, and I make coffee in a stove-top machine thingy. Only to get to the kitchen before realising that the grinder is electric - quarter of an hour of attacking coffee-beans with a pestle and mortar resulted in the most weak insipid coffee. :evilfrown:

Then my M.P.3 battery was flat, normally not a problem - but nothing to recharge it :grr: But managed to get some music playing through the crappy speakers on my laptop.

But now power has been restored - decent strength coffee is made, and communication has been restored with the rest of the world. Once I've drunk this, off to the shower and I'll almost feel like a human again.