This all started two weeks ago. We got a letter... ya know with stamps on it ...from the power company warning us that they were gonna replace a power pole in the neighborhood today and that the power would probably be turned off from 8:00am until around 3:00pm.
Do you think I remembered?
It probably wouldn't have made much difference if I had.
Probably the most inconvenient part of the whole situation is that even though we have mostly natural gas appliances, they require electricity to operate. So we had no heat. Have I mentioned that the overnight temperatures have been at the freezing point for the last couple of days?
Oh yeah and I missed checking my email every couple of hours and seeing what was blogged since yesterday.
Isn't it amazing how we take for granted the ability to flick a switch and get instant light? We had a power cut while we were in France a week or two back - just as we were proposing to put the kettle on! I think it might have been a result of a car bringing down an electricity pole as when we wanted to drive to Pouance later the road was closed. Next day we saw where the pole had been.
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