We had a little interruption to our power yesterday: only for a few minutes but long enough to knock out the settings on the TV. However, it didn’t take long to re-establish them and we can now get Prime and Youtube and all the others again. Because our neighbours had lost power too, I put it down to builders who are working in the area. Longford is a hot spot for building at the moment and you can’t drive down any street without seeing a builder’s sign or two.
There are two sites close to us. One is separated from us by just one back yard so we can hear their machinery and radios when they’re working. They’re the ones I blame for interrupting the power supply. On my constitutional yesterday, I wandered in that direction to see what was happening. It’s only a tiny sliver of land, bounded by an established house on one side and the flood levee bank on the other. Longford was always flood-prone in the early days of settlement so banks were built to keep the excess water under control. There’s a track over the levee to a farm on the other side with two large sandstone gate posts. The imposing gate, which would have hung there once, is long gone.
The river which would have caused so much trouble a century ago is just a gentle creek now but I haven’t seen it after a rainstorm; it might be quite different.
There are six units in the subdivision, much like ours but with a bit less land around them. They looked to be almost finished and I suspect the power has now been connected to at least some of them. They’ll need a few weeks for basic landscaping and tidying up and then they’ll hit the market. If you can believe the scuttlebutt about housing in Tasmania, they’ll be snapped up. And, I’ll be very interested in seeing the asking price.
Don't forget to watch Back Roads on ABC at 8 o'clock on Monday. They're doing a story on Longford.
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