Who needs Eskom's load-shedding, which sticks to a boring schedule, when you can have your very own, personalised, random and always of uncertain duration, power failures here in the old part of Kommetjie near the lighthouse. We were just treated to one for the last two hours.
When we first moved here 32 years ago, we were advised to buy plenty of paraffin lamps and keep them in strategic places for just such an event, and this was years before the current (excuse the pun - it was not intentional) incumbents in charge of such an important part of a country's infrastructure had an opportunity to wreck the system. Those paraffin lamps were used many times and are still on the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard, ready to be used. We have just moved on to battery operated lights, or regressed to candles! Prefer candles, I must say, but difficult to read by and definitely won't connect you to wi-fi.
Power failures don't faze HWCFA, as he goes to bed with the sun (you might say he is solar-powered - oh, my goodness me, after all these years, I have hit the nail on the head - a lightbulb moment).
The kids took the gap and hotfooted it up to the pub, which is in the area of Kommetjie that doesn't have power failures, leaving Mother alone and in the dark! Nice. We'll see if Santa Claus visits this year.
Jokes aside, a few hours without power can be coped with, but it always seems to be after dark, and that is the annoying part. And I really felt like finishing off that pile of ironing!
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