Eskom’s brain shedding has nearly ruined meals but thanks to gas we survive.
The worse that we did have was when I was busy with a week’s worth of washing and suddenly the power went out.
Ok, no problem, we waited while I ate my way through some chocolate to relax my nerves.
After 4 hours with no power there was another surprise - no water.
The power outage had affected the water pumps, and when the power eventually came back on some 12 hours later, I couldn’t carry on washing as we didn’t have water.
Luckily my washing was in the rinse phase so all I had to do was squeeze out the water.
It didn’t look that difficult until I realised after trying to squeeze out a few shirts that I was not Super Woman and my back was not made for bending over the bath.
Suffice to say, mission accomplished with great difficulty and I made the Hunchback of Notre-Dame look like a runway model.
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