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June 6, 2007
Power-less
I am feeling rather jaded this morning and not in the best of spirits.
No, it's not because I had a heavy night out on the town but due to a lack of power in my house.
I was awoken in the night by the sound of alarms going off all around me and quickly realised that a power cut seemed to have triggered a series of alarms off in the shops at the top of my road.
With my alarm clock now disabled I stumbled for my watch saw it was 12.30am and turned over to try and get back to sleep - not easy with bells ringing in my ears.
Then horror of horrors, with the alarm clock wiped out, I woke up a good hour later than normal to discover that there was still no power and I was running desperately late.
It goes from bad to worse. No power means no shower, no hot water, no early morning cup of tea or a quick chance to catch the morning news headlines on TV - I am not in the best of moods by now.
Leaving the house much later than normal means I then hit all the M25 rush-hour traffic and have a tedious journey in to Uxbridge - finally arriving two hours later than my normal early morning start.
So, it's not been the perfect start to the day but, as they say, things can only get better....
Posted by aseal at June 6, 2007 10:35 AM