Easter comes and Easter goes but it seems that another power cut makes things just a little more frustrating. I know this is a bit rich but power cuts are really annoying. We have been having problems over the past 9 months when we have suffered 5 cuts. Today things went off just around 9am and they still haven’t sorted the problem. I have spoken to the power distribution company and their engineers on the ground and the problem is they just don’t know where the problem is located. The best they can say at the moment is that it somewhere under the road near to my house – however, they can’t tell more until it goes again. So today we have had intermittent power all morning and as I write this the power is off again but thanks to the iPad and local wifi hot spots I am able to keep in contact with the outside world.

My friends laugh at me when I say that Internet access is as important now as electricity but it is. I have now been using the WWW since Windows 95 was launched – almost 20 years no – and so my life revolves around what is and what is not happening on the Internet. That seems very say but it really isn’t and allows me to have a much richer life.

Let’s hope that the problem is resolved once and for all today – I’m not holding my breath and that the battery on my iPad lasts – currently it is at 85%. One thing I can still do in the daylight is draw and paint and thankfully as the days are longer the light will last much longer.

Simon Marchini
http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk