What's mildly irritating you today?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Excellent idea, one photo of the CEO passed out, with empty bottles and several naked ladies in attendance, is very persuasive. Likely his wife won't believe it if there's more than one lady, but his peers and stockholders would.
Call it operation Bill Cosby.

[Carruthers]

TBH, more than mildly irritating, but anyway...

Last Thursday's power cut during one of our recurrent bouts of bad weather wasn't exactly unpredictable but UK Power Networks seems incapable of using even a smidgen of common sense.

Each winter seems to come as a surprise to them and when flying chunks of tree hit overhead lines they are faced with often very difficult repair jobs.

They never seem to expend any effort in trimming back trees which are close to power lines during the summer months. Perhaps it's cheaper to wait for the inevitable.

Surely an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure?


Incidentally, when the supply was restored after about twelve hours, my wireless router was as dead as a Norwegian Blue.

Despite my best endeavours nothing would resurrect it so I did what I always do at moments of crisis, I went and made a cup of tea.

Strangely, when I wandered back into my man cave about half an hour later, it was working and has been ever since.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Perhaps your attempts to reactivate were indistinguishable from the previous power company chaos to the router, and it went into this too shall pass mode.