Electrical outages. cyber attacks ?

"they should have given some warning" "cut of without consultation" and similar remarks


I still find it very strange that a lot of people have no plan "B" for the things they place so much reliance on, be it food, heating, electricity, communications, travel etc.


The first three years of my life were without electricity (I can just remember the oil lamp on the table) and as a teenager the likes of the postal strike, bread shortage, sugar shortage, 50 mph speed limit, petrol ration cards and the three day week with associated black outs. Only heat was from an anthracite Rayburn and I'm told, my early nights were spent in the airing cupboard next to the bare hot water cylinder, so that might explain my attraction to all things copper! 


I suppose being brought up on a farm, expectations and what you had were both low, so you managed. I miss the inevitable bubble and squeak on Mondays though but not damsons which in season, formed every variety of pudding, including as substitute for sultanas in bread (stale) and butter (home made) pudding. And the perpetual supply of rice pudding to the extent that on being served boiled rice mixed with peas, sweetcorn and orange segments we thought Mother was trying to poison us from following Fanny Craddock's ideas...... Yet alone finding a orphan lamb in the warming oven of the Rayburn......


Regards


Grumpy (1956) BOD

"they should have given some warning" "cut of without consultation" and similar remarks


I still find it very strange that a lot of people have no plan "B" for the things they place so much reliance on, be it food, heating, electricity, communications, travel etc.


The first three years of my life were without electricity (I can just remember the oil lamp on the table) and as a teenager the likes of the postal strike, bread shortage, sugar shortage, 50 mph speed limit, petrol ration cards and the three day week with associated black outs. Only heat was from an anthracite Rayburn and I'm told, my early nights were spent in the airing cupboard next to the bare hot water cylinder, so that might explain my attraction to all things copper! 


I suppose being brought up on a farm, expectations and what you had were both low, so you managed. I miss the inevitable bubble and squeak on Mondays though but not damsons which in season, formed every variety of pudding, including as substitute for sultanas in bread (stale) and butter (home made) pudding. And the perpetual supply of rice pudding to the extent that on being served boiled rice mixed with peas, sweetcorn and orange segments we thought Mother was trying to poison us from following Fanny Craddock's ideas...... Yet alone finding a orphan lamb in the warming oven of the Rayburn......


Regards


Grumpy (1956) BOD