Energy

Monday: A little note on the front door tells me that they'll switch off the electricity from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday. Five hours, so what. And I won't have to work that day anyway.

Friday: Being used to my early hours, my body isn't too angry with me for dragging it out of bed at 6.30ish. Time to bake the scones I prepared last night and to enjoy them with yesterday's jam. I try one, like it and decide to go back to bed an hour later. Reading in bed - isn't that the best on a workless day?!

11.45: Got up for the second time, and now I realise that my brain can't have been fully awake yet, otherwise I would have prepared tea as long as I could. The heating - cold. All electrical devices - dead. Gas stove? Haven't had one of those since my third last shared flat as a university student. And the camping stove is not really an option either.

12.00: One hour to go. The laptop battery promises to last for another hour and 18 minutes. Hopefully the electricity guys will be on time.
They say that you shouldn't open the fridge without need which makes sense. I could eat dry bread (ugh), eat raw eggs (ewwwwww) which I forgot to put in the fridge yesterday and drink cold water with blackcurrant juice (hmm). Or sweets. But no, there is the organic box! Apples, carrots, a grapefruit, lettuce and so on. Hmm. Hmmmmm. The vegetable box is outside my apartment door; that's where I keep onions and potatoes as well (small flat you see).
And everytime I go and get something from out there, I'm a little afraid that the door might close behind me, leaving me outside, dressed less than adequately ;-)

12:05: Apple and juice. And cereal - dared opening the fridge for ten seconds to grab milk and jam.

12.55: My hands are getting cold. 16°C inside, 1°C and snow fall outside. I have a feeling that the electricity won't be back at 1 p.m. on the dot. Let's see.

1:07: The power is back. Time to reset the clocks and yes, to post this story..

1:21: Why is the heating not showing any signs of warming up??

Intelligently dumb

or: Why do people blog?

If you blog, you think you've got something to say. Something that will make the world a better place, that will make your readers more intelligent. Nobody who is writing a blog considers it a waste of webspace. We want to present ourselves and our abilities, be it poetry, sketching, prose, photography, movie and music reviews and what not.

The question that I'd like to have answered is: What made you start blogging in the first place? What was the trigger?

I Want An Apple or Scurvy?

I was on vacation for ten days, UK again after two years, and before, we had been talking and drooling about all the delicacies we were going to indulge in: krispy kreme doughnuts (yes, they're different), all sandwich varieties, cheese and onion pasty, chips (= thick cut fries) with salt and vinegar, shortbread, mint flavoured kitkats and and and...

So we did. As we couldn't cook there, not even microwave, vegetables weren't present much. Bramley apples figured everywhere so we had to give them a try as well - turns out they're rather sour and unfold their aroma in cooked dishes only, so that was not a hit either. I seriously feared scurvy at some point. "No, there is lettuce on the sandwich", "The doughnut had a raspberry filling" or "I had apple juice for breakfast and a raisin in my cereal" were the phrases we used to reassure ourselves and each other ;-)

Now I'm back and I badly crave an apple. A carrot. Some salad.

Luckily tomorrow is Wednesday - vegetable box day :D