The power cut

I was in the process of setting up a still life to photograph when the power went off. It was the whole village so we were in complete darkness.

I left Mum in her armchair with strict instructions to stay there! and I stumbled off to find the candles. It's funny how difficult it is to find your way in a familiar house in complete darkness. The worst problem was that the stair lift alarm went off and kept going despite my best efforts to silence it. Later I was able to speak to the engineer and he told me how to switch the alarm off.

After some time, I had a few candles lit and even found Mum's iPad for her. That kept her out of mischief happily occupied for a couple of hours. We expected the power back on at 11pm but there was a flicker and no more. We made our way to bed and the lights came back on at abotu 3am. Radio 4 was in my ears and central heating came to life!  Half asleep I went around and switched everything off and put the fast freeze on.

Otherwise yesterday was at home, mainly on the phone all morning and asleep in the afternoon.