An August Christmas

The one thing I could not change for the past 2 days was the nearly 12 hour long electricity cut.

Power came back after 9 pm

We 've had 2 difficult days.

Thank you for your prayers. My mother 's cough is much better now.

But the power cuts drain her out and she is like a little child ,I have to pacify. Tonight in all the dark confusion I pressed a wrong button on the TV digital control and lost all the channels.I rang up the cable guy and he gave me complicated instructions over the phone. I got half way but couldn 't complete the job...it was too complex and perplexing -setting the digital controls again.My mother was very impressed and said,"You should have gone into electronic technology". A compliment in the dark!

Tomorrow a technician will cone to correct the fault.

And I will have a mini training session with him.

After all setting digital controls is not rocket science.

We have a battery run inverter but it gives out after running for a number of hours and I light my 2 kerosene lamps and Christmas Santa Claus candles. Its almost like Christmas except for the heat and humidity and a throbbing headache.

And instead of singing 'Silent Night '( the night is literally dark and silent)

I should be singing -

'Give me Oil In my Lamp, Keep me burning '

We are hoping that tomorrow will be a 'good day ' without an extra long unpredictable power cut.