Monday, April 11

It's Monday and we're suffering a blackout.  Everything went off at about 10 this morning just as I was heading into town and it was still off when I got back an hour or two later.  Being at the end of the line here, we have the occasional drop out but they don't usually last long.  This one is a bit longer so we contacted Aurora who assured us there was no problem at our address.  Clearly there is but Aurora didn't seem to accept responsibility.

We were just about to ring an electrician when Aurora rang back, full of apologies and surprised to discover that we, in fact, belonged to the Windermere sub-station and were in the midst of a scheduled outage for upgrade work.  It's not very reassuring to discover that the electrical supplier doesn't know where his customers are connected.

Anyway, we've been told it will all be back to normal by 3 o'clock.  It's a bit too hot to be outside in the garden so I'm enjoying a read while Marilyn is playing Canasta on her ipod.  I planned to attach a couple more photos of Madi's Baby Shower but I'm having trouble connecting to the internet to download from Facebook.  Maybe Telstra has a blackout too.

Later .... success at last.  The power is back on and photos have been dowloaded.  These were all taken with Jamie and Nera's new toy: a youbeaut Gopro camera.