but on bloody dialup.
My God how easily we get addicted to broadband!

The entire area has been without power since 2am!

Only my computers (batteries) and CCTV/alarm system (backup batteries) are working.

Torches, candles (it's still dark at 7am) and radio... SO primitive darling!

Fortunately I stocked up months ago and am enjoying a hot cup of Blue Mountain coffee (camping gas stoves bought last year) whilst surfing the net VERY slowly.

Re; the radio, it`s funny how it takes a power cut often to get a radio habit back, when we get power cuts here, I cling to the local BBC station to find when it`s going to get turned on again, then often find I am hooked on it, like I allways was.
I still love ,what , is now Talk Sport, but did prefer it in it`s old Talk Radio format. Me and my mate were regular callers as you can imagine!
I love phone ins, but message boards like this have largely replaced it, it`s also worrying that when I write to the papers in an irate or opinioned manner, 99% of the time the letter is published. I don`t think this is a compliment, I think that fewer and fewer people write letters to newspapers these days which is sad.
My friends mum became so famous for writing to the papers, that the BBC did a documentary on her.

Remembered my battery TV portable I bought when I was in Belmarsh!

With that, hot coffee, a thick duvet and the morning papers it's now relatively civilized.

MORAL: always keep loads of spare batteries and torches, candles (and matches), and camping gas stove easily within reach.

Aha! You need to purchase what we have, our radio is solar powered with a wind up handle which charges a dynamo to power it when there is no sunlight. It`s my favourite gadget, and they are only about

One little power cut (in the middle of the night) and you'd think the world had ended. Read a book if you can bare to enjoy something that you can't claim to have had a hand in.

<<<< always keep loads of spare batteries and torches, candles (and matches), and camping gas stove easily within reach. >>>

... sounds like the start of a bomb making factory to me !!!!!!!!!!

I bought some wind-up torches as whenever I have the need for one I find the batteries are dead. Problem is they don't work... they were a wind-up! Actually no, that was a wind-up, they work fine

Speaking of wind-up radio, have you heard Scott Mills? Winds me up no end

Sorry!

Huge hole in the ground; four hours more at least!

Makes you realise how much we need electricity.

I recall in the wilds of Gloucestershire countryside in the winter of 1991 we were without electricity for three days. Almost four feet of snow. Roads blocked. Water pipes frozen up. My only computer at the time was a Spectrum+2, and of course no internet. Radio provided the entertainment. Great fun!

Power back on with huge relief.

Amazing how the world changes without electricity.

Ah, JK... let him without typos or homonyms cast the first stone..

But to replace have with of, I suggest we pelt them with knotted condoms filled with piss

I'm always learning JK. However;

I think you will find that 'bare' when used as a verb with an object is quite correct.

Not in that context

Well, what's a bare bear between friends anyway?

I will have you know i am very well educated though. My parents paid through the nose for it so i must, therefore, be superior to the majority.

We are seriously looking a getting a wind turbine to generate some of our electricity. They are about

I think Charterhouse beats most places hands down...

However, a parable...

A colleague of mine arrives in work one Friday with the healthy glow one associates with the two or three day dead.

"On the piss?" says I, shewing the blood of bards is strong in me.

"I don't know why I feel like this. I was drinking good wine last night. Thirty quid a bottle"

"Hmm," I retort, "not good, merely expensive, methinks"

And showing the in his soul poet could match my bard,

"Oh fuck off" he replied, and went in search of coffee...


and JK is right

Consider the old hymn 'Gladly my cross I'll bear'... bear meaning to endure, which was the context used...

BTW, JK, I didn't know Charterhouse was a Football/Cricket school until fact checked. Alas the Borstal surrogate I went to was Rugby/Cricket...

Credit where due; EDF kept me well informed, even calling afterwards to apologise and let me know what the problem had been.

London Electric were one of my biggest clients in a previous job.

I spent the day of Dunblaine hammering out an IT support deal for their claims... Grandpa does more damage control. I spent the drive home battling a migraine and profiling the shooter (I was pretty close)

Nice to know it's all resolved now... what exactly had happened?

They managed to put in a new section of cable; we were out for 10 hours - the entire block.

They had to keep working for hours afterwards but we were OK by then.