Karma

To punish me for gloating about cooler temperatures in the North, at ten to eight this morning our power went off.
It’s still off now.
It has been 32.5°C today, the hottest day so far, and all I can say is thank goodness for generators and changeover switches. It started as ‘restoration due between 9 and 10’, and now, by hour stages, is estimating 18:15. I’ll believe it when I see it.
No reason has been given or is apparent for the power outage, which is very localised – it was 73 properties, but is now down to 22, but those are spread over 20 square miles, so we’re not high priority. We’ve not had thunderstorms, and had 6 drops of rain at 8am and 106 drops half an hour ago.
As I said, thank goodness for generators, because we would potentially have lost a lot of fridge and freezer food today.
As it is, I’ve made lemon sorbet – if the generator is running, it costs little (if any) more to run the ice cream maker. It joins the other home-made flavours in the freezer: mango and lime sorbet, mint choc chip, ginger, apricot and pistachio, vanilla, rhubarb and orange and maybe a couple of others I’ve forgetten. All very low-sugar and with no nasty ingredients.
I didn’t tell you before, but on Wednesday we had no water for most of the day, having had very low water pressure since the previous Thursday. It is likely this was due to a demolish-and- rebuild project on the top of a hill a few miles away, but their workmen won’t admit to having gone through our water supply pipes while putting in a new septic tank. But, one of them has previous: he went through our telephone line while installing our gigabit broadband a couple of years ago. This was the water from our taps as it eventually returned:


Oh, the joys of rural living.