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In which I actually win at blackouts!
Feb. 28th, 2011 08:43 pmI was in the middle of cooking tea this evening when the whole flat plunged into darkness. As did everywhere else for at least a block, and there was an alarm whining away in the distance.
So I turned the stove off, and dug the torch out of the cupboard so I could rummage for the candles I'd also stashed in there for just such an occasion. Then Rowan held the torch for me so I could see to light the candle. I only have one candlestick at the moment, but thankfully I don't have many problems working in low light. A year working as a cinema usher is good practise for that :-)
This also had an added advantage of proving to Rowan how sensible I was refusing to tell him where the torch was stored, during one of his moments of obsessively asking for it - had he gotten his hands on it, not only would I not know where it was, it would likely be out of power too.
Finished cooking our pasta by the light of our single candle, which was an experience! Turned out to also be a very good thing that my biggest burner on the stove doesn't work properly, since the cooker requires a source of electricity to light the gas. Since that particular burner seems to have a fault in that area, I own one of those clicky lighter thingies, enabling me to continue to cook!
So, once food was ready, Rowan and I huddled up on the sofa in the front room, with the candle on the coffee table and 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' on the laptop. We were about forty-five minutes in to the film when the power came back on, thank god! So the contents of my freezer should be absolutely fine.
I was very relieved to get through the experience with no difficulty - the last time this happened Rowan was in bed and I was hanging around with nothing to do and only the street lights to see by. Didn't even have those tonight!
So now I can relax with NCIS as usual - hey Hilary, the 'worst psychiatrist ever' is in Gibbs' interrogation room right at this moment! lol! - and I'm not going to miss tonight's Glee! \O/ Got a gig tomorrow night in Carmarthen, so I need to get clothes ready for that too - Rowan gets to sleep over at a friend's house since I'm not likely to get home till gone midnight :-/
So I turned the stove off, and dug the torch out of the cupboard so I could rummage for the candles I'd also stashed in there for just such an occasion. Then Rowan held the torch for me so I could see to light the candle. I only have one candlestick at the moment, but thankfully I don't have many problems working in low light. A year working as a cinema usher is good practise for that :-)
This also had an added advantage of proving to Rowan how sensible I was refusing to tell him where the torch was stored, during one of his moments of obsessively asking for it - had he gotten his hands on it, not only would I not know where it was, it would likely be out of power too.
Finished cooking our pasta by the light of our single candle, which was an experience! Turned out to also be a very good thing that my biggest burner on the stove doesn't work properly, since the cooker requires a source of electricity to light the gas. Since that particular burner seems to have a fault in that area, I own one of those clicky lighter thingies, enabling me to continue to cook!
So, once food was ready, Rowan and I huddled up on the sofa in the front room, with the candle on the coffee table and 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' on the laptop. We were about forty-five minutes in to the film when the power came back on, thank god! So the contents of my freezer should be absolutely fine.
I was very relieved to get through the experience with no difficulty - the last time this happened Rowan was in bed and I was hanging around with nothing to do and only the street lights to see by. Didn't even have those tonight!
So now I can relax with NCIS as usual - hey Hilary, the 'worst psychiatrist ever' is in Gibbs' interrogation room right at this moment! lol! - and I'm not going to miss tonight's Glee! \O/ Got a gig tomorrow night in Carmarthen, so I need to get clothes ready for that too - Rowan gets to sleep over at a friend's house since I'm not likely to get home till gone midnight :-/
