What did you do?

[bobsgirl]

What is your best memory of power cuts??
I used to remember being nice and cosy beside a coal fire, toasting bread and playing games with the family.
Doing our little sing songs and trying to impress each other......(Not that I would do that now!!!)
Always loved the ghost stories!!!!

[Billy Boy]

i just got sent to bed early .....:~(

[Naefearjustbeer]

We got to stay up late and played monopoly, whist or pontoon by the light of the tilley lamp. Wrapped tatties in tin foil and baked them in the fire yummmy :D

[connieb19]

We would always play hide and seek, make toast at the fire and play cards or board games, used to love it.
I hope the power dosna go out tonight, I took a wander to the shop(cos the car's abandoned in the country grr) to get candles, came back home and guess what? I forgot on the candles. I swear im getting dottled. :roll:

[Bobinovich]

I remember one particularly bad Winter where we were a good 48 hours without power because of the snow (must have been early 80's). My gran and grandad were up for the Christmas holidays and the five of us (mother, sister & self) sat around a wonderful open fire while a paraffin lamp and candles provided a dancing light in the dark evenings. Our food; bacon, sausages, bread, etc. fried over the fire, tasted sublime and was washed down with copious amounts of tea and/or hot chocolate. Snacks consisted mainly of toast made from home-made bread which had been made just a day or two before.

Mostly we read and played what seemed like hundreds of hands of whist. The cold nights were supplemented with hot water bottles to stave off the chill.

Looking back it was one of the best family times we had - great memories :D.

[flash]

An open fire, making toast on an adapted wire coat hanger, conversation, games and social interaction, I remember it was good fun.

[Whitewater]

The power cuts in the old days always were enjoyable I guess because of the coal or peat fire, you always had a source of heat that you could do basic cooking on and the passtimes were simple but good.

In the all all electric and central heated houses now I don't think it is so much fun, you may have a small gas cooker you can take in out of the shed or down from the attic but somehow it does not seem to hold the same facination as the old coal or peat fires with the shadow of the flames dancing on the walls.

[taylor.4]

i remember toasting bread on the coal fire and my dad boiling a pan of water on the fire, tea tasted disgusting, but what fun we had.

[canuck]

Ricco, remember when we were about 7 and most of Eastern North America was out for a day or so? I remember sleeping by the fire in the living room.

[Fran]

OOh those were the days. When there were power cuts, there was no tv so people would talk to each other. I had a coal fire then and always plenty of candles so the kids and I were always cosy and would play board games, especially battleships. We didnt have gas then, but my lovely near neighbour at the time, Sheila Duckart, had gas and would bring in hot water for tea and make soup for us and other neighbours who had no gas.The neighbours all helped each other out. That doesnt seem to happen now.
Also a lot of people had cb radios which could be powered off a car battery in the house, so you were never lonely. Happy days!! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_3_3.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZN)





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[DrSzin]

Gawd, I think this entire thread could be added to this website (http://www.brookview.karoo.net/BFA/) and it wouldn't look out of place! :cool: