We had a power cut yesterday: It lasted 14 hours. Even the ‘phone stopped working. And today I find our hill-top village has been cut off by a fallen tree, which we are told is not ‘high priority’, and will be dealt with ‘in due course’. Meanwhile a policeman has been deployed to supplement the ‘Road Closed’ sign and to help the locals do three-point turns.
In fact, we’re not actually cut off: there is another road that climbs through a series of tight hairpins but accpording to intelligence I picked up in our post office this morning, quite a few drivers have never been that way and find the propsect too daunting to attempt. For once, I am lost for words.
