I spent today (another 40c beauty) demonstrating lacemaking at the Stitches and Craft Fair here in Sydney. It was not as crowded as in previous years, thank goodness, but my head's still swimming.
I came home to find the power had been off for 3 1/2 hours. Another three hours passed, and we had enough power to show the display on the microwave, and spark the electric ignition on the gas cooktop. DH tried the overhead lights, but no luck. He then went out to a meeting, and I'm sitting there with the only light (his desktop fluro)which seems to want to work, and candles around the room, reading. By now we've also got a red standby light on the television, which eventually made me curious....did we have enough power to work a television? YES! So, even more curious, I tried a couple of other things...and they worked too. But still no lights. So then I went out to the fuse box, which husband had previously checked and assured me everything was on. He's still out, so he doesn't know yet - everything was on.....except the master switch to the lights!!!!! Three hours sitting in the dark for no purpose!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
