Power On

Well, since 08:28 this morning, this has been a no power household. It finally came back on at 17:55. Makes me wonder if the freezer has managed OK, not opened the door at all, but did open the fridge door a couple of times to make some hand warming cups of tea. Luckily for us we have a gas hob, which had to be lit with a lighter, but managed that without any incident (Ray Mears would have been proud of you - ed)

When I rang the power company this morning they said that the power would be back in an hour. A little optimistic in retrospect methinks. Rang again at 16:15, and was told that it would be on between 4 and 5pm. Well they were a little later than that, but arguably better late than never. At least we aren't snowed in down in the South as some parts of Scotland are who haev been without power for a few days now.

Funnily enough had just lit some candles in the front room, as the light was fading, and dug out the rewindable torch, but failed to find the battery powered torch. Know that I put it somewhere sensible (dangerous thing when he knows where something is - look what happened in the Attic - ed) but have not been sufficiently goaded to properly look for it. Think I am all searched out after Sunday in the attic.

But the  power is now back on I am just knocking out a quick post about it. I mean my readers need to be informed.

Seems that not all of Alton was struck, as I braved the bitter cold of the great outsdoors earlier, well I did  pop to Boots and Sainsbury's to stock up on a couple of items and noticed that Alton High Street was unaffected.

Mildly disappointed that the power is back on, I was looking forward to deciding whether we should go out to The George for dinner, assuming they had power or staying in and cooking a meal on the gas hob and eating a candlelit dinnner which did sound quite attractive, but that would require a bottle of wine to make it romantic?

Nothing on the Scottish and Southern Electric Power Distribution Site with the reason for the failure, all they said this morning was that there was a problem at a local substation.

What was noticeable, with the power outage, was that when the mobile phone ran out of charge and I couldn't access any form of news or social media and strangely the world didn't end? Bizarre eh! We are lucky to still have a landline phone (that old style technology does sometimes come in handy - ed), and the extension in the bedroom worked, but the main phone downstairs didn't as needs mains power. But what can you do with a landline in terms of accessing information on the internet without a working router (which needs electricity - ed) not much it seems.

Afterthought
Might be worth investing in a spare battery for the mobile to give me a little bit more time on the internet should we get another power outage (but you would have to keep it charged, and somewhere where you can remember, so that you can find it should the need arise - ed)