Saturday, February 02, 2008

The innate crapness of Britain

It snowed yesterday. It was a bit windy too. We had massive amounts of snowfall. Some people say it was possibly an entire inch, maybe less. It was a bit windy too. The trees opposite were moving a bit. I was in the bath doing bathy things. The power went off. It was 7:30 in the evening.

It came back on at 2:30am. I'd left a lamp on so I'd wake up. We went and sorted the heating clock, and the microwave things like that. at 2:45am the fucking power went again! We only knew this because the phone peeped in the phoney fashion when you place them back on their dock. So we got up and sorted all the clocks. Again!

This will be our 4 or 5th major power cut in about three years. I suspect our privatised electricity companies are possibly not investing in the infrastructure they got for fuck all money.

Britain can be really shit sometimes.

2 comments:

30th February said...

A fly farts in Newcastle and the power goes down in Southampton. A drop of rain falls in London and the trains stop running in Manchester.

You'd think that a country that survived Hitler's bombs would be better equipped to handle... well... anything!

bod said...

nah, that would require actual investment on behalf of the companies that bought out our national industries! that's just wishful thinking danny.