Snow and Sky
Late this afternoon our friend Jackie, WINOLJ, called to say she had got in from work and there was no electricity in her house. She'd tried a couple of things suggested by the electricity company and they hadn't worked, so I decided to drive over there, she lives about 2½ miles away in High Shincliffe. The snow had stopped and a thaw had sort-of set in. On arriving I could not help but notice a transit-sized van with a large dish on the roof, and a camera crew. Turns out that Sky News had driven down the motorway, come off at the local junction and pulled into the first village they could find, to take news pictures.

Jackie's electricity? Well I did manage to get some power back by isolating the circuit that was faulty, but could not see what the problem was beyond that. Still, she has light and heating and a cooker, so it's a lot less serious than it was.