Technology really gets a grip of you doesn’t it?!! You leave the house and suddenly realise you left your phone indoors, panic sets in and more than likely than not, you will go all the way back home to get it, unable to live life for a few hours without it. The power shuts down suddenly when the noisy workmen outside put their shovel through an electric cable, shutting the street of its power and all hell breaks loose, you can’t do anything! Washing machines stop mid cycle, the heating goes off, no hot water, no hoover, no TV, and god forbid…NO COMPUTERS! What the hell can you do with your time with no power?...Even the pubs beer pumps rely on power! No power endears me into finding ways to carry on and continue with getting on with my day, we did it before so for everything you cannot do, there is an alternative. I can vaguely remember power cuts when I was a child when the entire national grid would go down and having candles on the table for dinner. We had an AGA as well as an electric cooker so we still ate hot food! Landline telephones used to work too if they didn’t have a mains supply and if it was cold, Bricks would go into the AGA and used to warm the beds before bedtime! It wasn’t great sleeping with a hot brick in your bed wrapped up in a towel but it did keep us warm. In the middle of the night you would hear the odd ‘Thud!’ As the cooled bricks got kicked out of various beds around the house! So what do you do when we have no electricity today?...You get on with it like they always used to! You brush the floors and mop them, do the washing in the sink, let your hair dry naturally and read a book when you’re done! Light a candle when it gets dark, write a letter to your friend, I am sure they would love to receive a hand written letter from you instead of chatting the day away on Facebook or an email they lose in the junk folder. Pick up a pen and write a diary or journal, you remember those things? small long cylindrical objects with ink in them…Those things you used in school before the invention of keyboards and the only things that were button operated were your jeans. Would you cope with no power? Most of your jobs would cease and businesses collapse, there would be no cash points or fuel pumps, the entire system we live in is totally reliant on power. I think I might invest in a generator!!!
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:20:46 +0000
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