Must share a chuckle!

[Quassia]

Yesterday from early morning till about 9.30pm ... the phone,television and internet service was down due to some fault (Virgin) Anyway, I heard my name called over the back garden fence ... **** Is your tele ect .. off? Yes it is! They've told us it will be back on about 9.30am. Ah right I said, they told me just after 10.00am! Well, it went on like this with them knocking on ect.. totally beside themselves!! So I said, tell you what, I'll shout through the wall if it comes back on! Oh good idea he said! Anyway, tele came back on about 9.30pm along with the phone and internet .. I shouted through the wall .. Marie .. it's back on!! Her fella came out and shouted me over the back garden fence .. Is it??? They told me midnight!! His face had so much rejection I just burst out laughing! Couldn't help myself! He only laughed in the end. It was just so amusing how at a loss they were & how we miss such things and take them for granted!! ;0)

[starone]

I get withdrawal symptoms when I haven't got my beloved computer.

[Quassia]

Me too Starbuck! I wasn't really bothered about the tele. It was just the neighbours face when he said 'they told me midnight' ;0)

[starone]

Perhaps he had a bet on it?

[Hopkirk]

I remember being a kid in the 70's with the three day week and all that.

There were rolling power cuts and I remmber being quite excited about it, with candles and torches ready.

Then it happened, and the novelty wore off quickly.

One time my brother and I went to the cinema. We thought we were safe as we were down as low risk in the table printed in the local paper. Then there was a power cut and the staff had to use torches to see us out.

[Quassia]

I remember that Hopkirk!! Loved the candlelight evenings! Mum had a very tacky plastic illuminated water fountain thing, quite large with plastic lilys floating in it. Sounds awful, but to a kid was really lovely in the power cuts!!
So you were guided out through the darkness? How did they see 'you' ;0)

[bednobs]

our electricity periodically goes off and it's amazing how you think to yourself "well, no tv so i'll just go on the computer ... oh right, no computer, i'll just read my kindle, ....oh right, can't see to read it by, so i'll just phone my sister ....oh right, phone not working ....."

[piggynose]

i remember the power cuts with fondness, being a 9yr old sprog, it was always a laugh, plus not having a fridge in those days, food going off wasnt a problem, our food was stored in the pantry.

[Quassia]

You're right bednobs! I made the same mistake yesterday, thought I'd go on ebay to pass some time .. dohhh!

[Quassia]

piggy, it was exciting for the kids & a worry for our parents! There's something magical about candlelight! :0)

[ummmm]

I lost my electricity last weekend. It went off on Saturday and we didn't get it fixed until Monday.

It was much easier than I thought...I did have company though. I was surprised how quickly the nights went just sitting about chatting.

[Quassia]

ummmm, perhaps we're losing the art of plain old conversation! Makes you think eh!

[abstibus]

I was in the hairdresser's in Chertsey when the power went off. I had to leave, rollers and all. (those were the days).

[Quassia]

Oh no annie! :0/

[Tizzi24]

I remember in the 70's being issued with a candle to have on my desk, so I could carry on typing! This was at a large national company - 'elf & safety wouldn't allow that today!

[Quassia]

Tizzi, no they wouldn't allow it! Imagine how worried our parents were leaving a candle lit around children!

[denis567]

I remember the power cuts. One day we were in a supermarket (or as near to one as you could get in those days), it was just coming dark and the lights went off. A lady in front of us must have been anticipating this, and quick as a flash she started stuffing items off the shelves, into her shopping bag, and was off through the shop doorway before the staff could close them.

[Quassia]

denis, that was naughty of her !

[looobylooo]

oh your tale made me smile quassia, i could just picture it all! lol

but yep, its true, we do take things for granted dont we.

and its like ive had me right arm cut off if i cant get online!

and yes, i remember us rummaging under the stairs for the white candles, when i was little, when we had the power cuts. it was exciting stuff for us kids, sitting in candlelight, playing who could make the best shadows on the wall, lol.

oh and i remember, before having the luxury of a colour telly all those years ago, getting the empty crackly purply brown inlay of a chocolate box, and peering through that, making believe i was viewing 'rainbow' with bungle and his chums, in technicolour! ... ;o}

[Quassia]

Laughing my head off here looby! I think your parents were really mean making you believe you had a colour telly & all along you were just looking through a chocholate box!! LOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL ;0) x

[LoftyLottie]

Those power cuts were great. We had just got married and made the most of the long periods of darkness!!