It always happens just as we are cooking the evening meal!

I don’t need to tell those who are living here that we had another of our infamous power cuts again last night.

At about ten past eight, the power went off, and came back again for less than a second three times. This is a pattern that is becoming all too familiar for us and we know just what it means. Somewhere there is a fault which prevents the electricity supply restoring itself. It means that we will have a wait for someone to come out before we get our supply back.

This time it was just after ten o’ clock when power was restored. It did come back again briefly a couple of times before that but obviously the fault had not been rectified so the lights returned for less than a second.

Since I bought my new UPS (uninterruptible power supply) last February it has recorded 23 electricity cuts and that is just when the computer has been switched on. That is 23 more than we ever had in the UK (except during the “winter of discontent” of course).