Power-less

Our electricity supply has been interrupted a few times recently - after an actual power cut back in January, we were officially switched off for a day in February while the electricity people did some major replacement of the local infrastructure.

Now today we're off again as they rewire us to the pole . . .

We're reliably informed (by an electricity man) that they aren't actually allowed to switch us off again now for another 12 months - although hopefully they've done all they need to do now.

For today's 'outage' we had also invested in a small leisure battery and inverter - which kept the freezers running, and will in due course be used to power things in the garage using the solar.

Dinner in the Dark

It's been a stormy day, with the wind howling round the house overnight (although other places in Wales seem to be having it worse than us). 

Made it out onto the prom this afternoon, despite the weather, for what proved to be a rather wild walk . . . but with some great views!

Back home with the wind still buffeting the house, and (perhaps not surprisingly) we also had our first power cut of the year.  

Luckily dinner was a casserole (out of the rayburn), and we could light the fire for some added warmth . . .  

. . . and here we are, with dinner in the dark (well by firelight, candlelight and torchlight!).

Fair play to the electricity people - they had us reconnected within a couple of hours despite the weather - although we're now checking out rechargeable / windupable lanterns on Amazon!