2 hours, 20 minutes left

The only thing that works is my laptop, I have two hour and twenty minutes left on that. Then complete darkness. The candle is on it’s last piece of wick. My torch is emitting as much light as the false optimism when someone says “Well there’s light at the end of the tunnel”. My newly purchased food shopping is well, sitting there on the bench, with a warminfg freezer to go into. My cup is sitting there with milk and a teabag, just no hot water to go in it. I cant turn the light on to find my other candles or torches. And yet I just sit and watch the houses opposite, why the fuck have they not got a power cut?

Well you have to think of the cup being half full of water (cold water mind you, not a nice freshly made cup of tea) and not half empty. You have to see the light at the end of the tunnel (well the lights from the houses opposite) in these situations. I guess you just have to look on the bright side of life (even if the candle is on its last legs).


my candle on it's last legs


A quick look at the odd stories of the day, make you think, that a powercut, maybe isn’t that bad after all. Anyway, I know I can touch type in the dark now.

Maybe this could sort my tea fix……… despite being a really stupid idea

No time for a cuppa? Pop a "tea pill"
Wed Mar 23, 2005 08:29 AM GMT

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Feel like a cup of tea, but don't have the time to brew one up? Pop a "tea pill" instead.
Indian tea scientists have produced a tea-flavoured pill that can be chewed or quickly dissolved in hot or cold water.
The brownish tablet weighs 0.3 grams and consists of 80 percent tea and 20 percent other flavours -- a combination the inventors at the Tocklai tea research centre in India's northeastern Assam state say peps you up just like a traditional cuppa.
"You can suck it, chew it or dissolve it in water the way you like to have it and still feel the taste of a real cup of tea," said the centre's director, Mridul Hazarika.
"As the liquid tea refreshes, this tea pill will also refresh the people because it contains pure tea ingredients."
Hazarika said the centre had applied for a patent and the pill, with a bit more fine tuning, should hit the market in six months.
Indians drink a lot of tea but in recent years its tea business, the world's largest, has faced growing competition from soft drinks.



Well, at the moment, I’ve got no electricity to power my alarm clock, so maybe worth a look……..

Alarm clock set to wake doziest of sleepers

LONDON (Reuters) - Can't get out of bed in the morning?
Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed.
After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room.
"When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep," New Scientist said on Tuesday


Makes my temporary power cut induced blindness seem very trivial………..

Woman kills herself so blind sons can see

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian woman committed suicide so her two blind sons could receive her eyes and see, a newspaper has reporte.
But doctors say the chances of success are bleak, The Indian Express reported on Monday.
Thirty-seven-year-old Tamizhselvi's sons, Kumaran, 17, and Kumar, 15, have been blind since birth.
Doctors in the southern city of Chennai say Kumar's condition cannot be helped with a cornea transplant and also suspect his elder brother does not have a cornea defect.
"We had told the family earlier itself that a corneal transplant was not needed for the younger son," the Express quoted hospital official G. Seethalakshmi saying.
The family is insisting Tamizhselvi's corneas can only be used for her sons and no one else.

But then again…… it could be like this…….