Living on the Dark Side

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Here in Norfolk UK we've had a couple of days of high wind which,has resulted in us having constant power cuts. I wouldn't mind if they were consistent but we can have it back in a flash (no pun intended) or it can take half an hour/ When I was a child, if we had power cuts it wasn't a problem. We had a coke boiler to heat our water and in an emergency it could be used as a mini hob . We had battery radios, and clocks were wound up with a key. Heating was supplied by coal fires. Washing was done in the huge kitchen sink and was squeezed through a wringer to get the water out. Now when the electricity goes off it seems that as soon as it comes back on you spend half an hour resetting clocks on your cooker, your TV recorders and your alarm clocks. You can find that your washing has stopped halfway through it's cycle and, likewise, the dishwasher. Life was so much simpler back in the 1960's.