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Power Cut
July 4th, 2006 at 23:28
I’ve just had the most unbearable three quarters of an hour of my life.
I was sitting on my laptop and my mum was watching Richard and Judy, when all of a sudden a fading “Woooo” noise was heard as the electricity around us died. It was a power cut, and it demonstrated in an awful way just how dependent on electricity I am.
I had to endure the following atrocities:
- Reading a book
- Talking to my mother
- Passing the time of day
- Sitting quietly
It was horrible. It was like being back in the olden-days, when the only entertainment was a metal hoop and a stick. And I don’t even have a metal hoop and a stick.
Eventually, my mum found a radio that runs off of batteries, so we tuned into The Home Service (ie: Radio Leicester), sitting around the radio as a family. I half expected to hear Neville Chamberlain announce that Great Britain was at war with Germany. Or perhaps more likely: Portugal.
It’s hard to explain just how besides myself with boredom I was… I had literally nothing to do, because everything that I do do involves electricity in some capacity. I can’t even post on my blog without electricity… madness!
Thankfully, after 45 long and painful minutes, the electricity returned in a vaguely literal blaze of glory (ie: things lit up a bit). It turned out the power cut affected a rather large area- probably at least twenty miles big.
Thrilling stuff, this.
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