Lights Out!

The powercut turned somewhat into a romantic candle-lit dinner

Tonight while we were sitting at home watching TV, we all got taken by surprise when the whole room was thrown into darkness. The whole house in fact. A quick look out the window and down the street confirmed the assumption that we weren’t the only ones without power. At least our whole road was struck with a power cut and it just happened to come at a time that was just a bit too dark to see properly. In true emergency spirit, my mum found an assorted collection of candles to light so we could all see. I knew those candles would come in handy one day It also just so happened to be dinner time for us, so we ate dinner as a family in candle light and I must say it was a definitely a change from the norm. The absence of electricity really made me realise how much time I have without TV, computers and the like, and I think I saw it as a timely reminder that I should always remember to take breaks from these things. After nearly 30 minutes, we heard an array of random beeps coming from various appliances around our house and then everything was back to normal. It was almost as if nothing had happened.