We are in MORTAL PERIL! FEEEEAR!

*snicker* we just had a power cut. Not in the house, the whole...well, area, I guess. All the street lamps and shops and everything. And it cracks me up because I immediately went, 'bugger, I want a coffee. Have I got candles? Where the fuck's my torch? Hell, the baby's bottles aren't sterilised. ...what if it doesn't come back on? Omg. What if its like this all night? I was going to do laundry, I can't have ages of no power without emptying the laundry basket! And I'd better boil a heap of water and make up her feeds and find the Milton tablets to do the bottles. I have only one tea candle, OH NOES!! And the battery is weak in the torch...OK, I have money in my bank account at midnight. I'll get Evie up and we'll drive to the supermarket and stock up on supplies. Damnit, no hot water to do the washing up. No heating. OMG!!'

That lasted about five minutes. And then I got a grip on myself and realised that someone will be working to turn it all back on and perhaps I shouldn't start fortifying the flat against a nuclear winter just yet. Sensible! Especially as, an hour later, power is restored.

...I immediately went and made coffee and sterilised bottles and did the washing up just in case. You never know when the country might implode and you're stuck boiling water in a pan to have a hot drink. And I shall buy candles tomorrow. Yes.

Actually, it quite sucks. I was doing my homework by candlelight because there was nothing else to do. Another twenty minutes and it would have been done. *sigh* No chance of that happening now, obviously.