Yesterday at around 3.30pm, the electricity went off...for 20 hours, that gave us a taste of things to come and I realised why I have been behaving so strangely for the past couple of years.
Well strangely for the average english house dweller. Every day I clean the woodburner, stack wood inside the house, make sure there is wood outside that is dry and I can easily get to.
I also put all the solar lamps to charge even if there is no sun.
Back to yesterday. Lights off, heating off, cooker off...o dear..
The woodburner was on, kettle simmering on top. Just had to add my old Le Creuset cast iron pot with vegs in it to cook the stew and put some potatoes in the fire for later.
As the night drew in we realised the street lamps were off too and most of our part of the village was dark. Switched solar lamps on, one at a time and snuggled up.
Fed the fire, ate, drank tea, read, listened to our wind up radio...
Felt like a rehearsal. Actually was a rehearsal.
Did not know we use so much hot water, will have to see to that and get a bigger kettle. And all these hours in the darkness (comparatively) were strange on the psychy...we went to bed early
We were woken up in the night by men digging our road up trying to trace the fault and got power back this morning.
I have been so often told that I exagerate, I am a conspiracy theorist, I am too extreme...well last night, I was proven right and this morning I feel...well proud, I guess and a bit smug...o all right...a lot smug!
Whatever, whenever, we are ready for it!
PS. We lost internet too...this needs working on.
PPS. no photos...dark...
We get power cuts in the winter up here and it is so comforting to have fuel and a source of heat/way to took etc. What really shocked me last year was hearing from one local woman tha she had no alternative way of cooking etc and she had a diabetic daughter!
ReplyDeleteHave to say Hurrah you!