Insane RAMblings of a barking sheep

shaun40400

morning all

a quite evening was had here,as we had no power from 5pm till 9pm ish
so candles ,parlour games,and sandwiches for diner was order of the day,

actually it was nice and quite for a change,and life was a lot slower,as their was nothing to do,just sit and talk,and play games,,,,:D
(might just pull the fuse every night for a couple of hours):o:o

this morning we are back to the 21st century,,,,,so i better shift my a** and get going:o

s x x

Karmacat

Oh I remember that from my teenage years, how different it was when we had long power cuts! One time, me and my brother and sister walked down to the Mersey to look at the river lights (which were still on) it was lovely.

OliveOyl_2

We must be of a similar age KC, I remember winter would = power cuts and doing homework by candlelight :rotfl:

(It was difficult, and I always burnt myself playing with the candle and I was terrified of going to the cold bathroom in the dark because of the daddy long legs :rotfl:)

Karmacat

I think we are, Olive - tho sadly I think I'm the oldest of the regular gang - I'm 54.... god I hate writing that! I should still be a teenager!

Double_Trouble

Karmacat wrote: »

I think we are, Olive - tho sadly I think I'm the oldest of the regular gang - I'm 54.... god I hate writing that! I should still be a teenager!

I'm 50 so not far behind - but young in heart old in the rest of the body though :eek:

I remember having my birthday party by candlelight due to the power cuts - made it more
exciting. I don't mind them gives me an excuse to light the coal fire

DTxx

shaun40400

as the baby of the group:j:j:j:j

the 70s power cuts were bad
i remember them saying all electric areas would only be cut in the daytime and have fewer cuts
we were always off
6am to 10 am
3pm to 2am

but was good times :rolleyes:,,,,,no heating,no light, no fires as we dident have a fire place.
cooking on a single camping gas ring
beans,soup,beans,soup,sosage,eth

oh happy times:rolleyes::rolleyes:

shaun40400

hi oo
how are you??

Karmacat

It was quite fun in some ways, wasn't it! Mind you, thats cos it didn't last long! My mum didn't have electricity until she was 7 years old, they moved into a council house, and she remembers going to bed with a candle before then - she used to perch it by the pillow! How the house didn't burn down, I have no idea..........

taxi73

people were so much closer years ago as they didn't have the distraction of tv/internet etc and people could manage to entertain themselves.
my profound thought for the day..lol

OliveOyl_2

I'm fine and Dandy thanks Shaun.

But I have my 50th birthday approaching (well 8 months.....) and am feeling old _pale_ I've never minded previous milestone birthdays before