Wild Night
Nov. 16th, 2005 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laura_seabrookI didn't get home until 8:30pm last night. What I found when I got here was that the power was out. It was a wet and windy night, so it was sort of expected that we'd have one of the 2-4 blackouts you get here in Barnsley. I passed a couple of emergency vehicles on the way home.
It was amusing to try and do everything in the semi dark, including feed all the pets. I finally found a torch and then the batteries for the lantern I bought last time there was a blackout (gives good light, and easy to carry). After that as done, I had Peggy and the cats inside with me. Luckily I'd bought a curried beef at the Chinese take-away in Westies before coming home - it was still hot and tasted so good under the circumstances.
Spent most of the night in the semi dark - after I lit three candles I turned off the lantern and just... ...sat there. It wasn't (surprisingly) unpleasant or boring to do. After a while I went to bed, but woke up about 1:40am when the power finally came on (and turned on the TV and bed light which I'd set for just that).
It's a funny thing, but instead of a disaster, everything felt more like quality quiet time with myself.
It was amusing to try and do everything in the semi dark, including feed all the pets. I finally found a torch and then the batteries for the lantern I bought last time there was a blackout (gives good light, and easy to carry). After that as done, I had Peggy and the cats inside with me. Luckily I'd bought a curried beef at the Chinese take-away in Westies before coming home - it was still hot and tasted so good under the circumstances.
Spent most of the night in the semi dark - after I lit three candles I turned off the lantern and just... ...sat there. It wasn't (surprisingly) unpleasant or boring to do. After a while I went to bed, but woke up about 1:40am when the power finally came on (and turned on the TV and bed light which I'd set for just that).
It's a funny thing, but instead of a disaster, everything felt more like quality quiet time with myself.
