Light and dark

So we are loadshedding during the tennis! This could become annoying. Cooking I can cope with, as I have gas and all afternoon to prepare it anyway, but to miss the tennis!?! Another evening of tall-flamed candles looms, the Scrabble laid out on the dining room table for another bout of who knows bigger words (or rather, who gets the best letters). Loadshedding has done wonders for card and board games and probably for family togetherness. There is a great deal to be said for shutting off the electronic stimuli that constantly bombard us and a return to a gentler way of life.
I often long for the evenings in front of the radio - Squad Cars (they prowl the empty streets at night, on foot and in fast cars...), Taxi! (Red Sails in the Sunset....), the Mind of Tracy Dark (too scary for me!) and most of all, Sunday nights with the Three Wise Men. Ah, call back the past - those days can never return and I am so thankful I was part of them, a time when the spoken word could draw you into a different life. Nowadays it's all about being fed a picture that gives you no room for imagination.
On a lighter note, after a good day's rain that even left puddles in the driveway, the sun came out at sunset to cast a golden glow on us before the lights went out!