Dark and Stormy

Oooh, did someone say cocktails?

A similar view as Monday's blip, but the sunset is way way way down between that crack between the clouds and terrain. Storm Arwen arrived today, with wind, rain, wind, sleet, wind, rain, which a good dollop of gales on top. Oh, and ooyah, brrr it is cold. I took Mrs C off to the train at lunch time for her to do some ran-danning in the big smoke and I decided not to take Arlo out for any walks, just chased him around the sofa. Yes I'm bad, you know it...

I went to pick Mrs C up at 9.30pm, should have been an hour earlier, but "oh, silly me, I missed the train", so gave Arlo a wee bit of excercise in the Gorebridge. The road there and back was covered in a carpet of branches so it was like a slalom course. On returning home, we noticed the power had dropped out and on, just as well I had the fire on then, but our internet was off due to a remote power cut. Hot spot time!

Although our power was back on, not everything was fully on... some lights didn't work, some came on after a few secs, the boiler wouldn't come on, it was like the further you got from the incoming supply, the less power there was, maybe not enough for things to power up. Luckly the TV came on. Eventually the internet came back. When I took Arlo out for his midnight port of call, I noticed the other cottages in the row had no lights on. The electricity pole is closest to us, I wonder if we only have some power because we are closest... I didn't know that was a thing. We're used to losing power up here, but I've never noticed that before. Maybe there is a tree on the line just draining the power elsewhere. 

Given the storm has been up the east coast of the UK, heading south, it might not be back to normal tomorrow so I'll need to fire the genny up for a bit of full power! We've had this portable generator for 15 maybe 20 years and use it a couple of times a year, once we had a 5 day power cut in snow and we ran out of fuel to run it so I went off with a wheelbarrow and fuel can then someone took me to fill up. I don't remember many stories but I will repeat this one forever! A wheelbarrow through snow is tough, then with 15Kg of fuel, jeez... omg is that the time, you've kept me blethering too long, what are you all like?

Although I love Dark and Stormy cocktails, I've not had one :-(