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So, yesterday there was a huge fireball downtown as a substation blew up, leaving Market Street, one of the major four open shopping streets, (more-or-less) without power.
Now I've been avoiding Market Street recently. If you like in the UK and watch a programme called The News, you can probably guess why by looking at my location. I live in Eastleigh and we have a by-election going on - for the last three weeks it's been nothing but candidates, candidates, candidates. If you're pig sick of hearing about it, think how we feel!! While I'd love to bitch incessantly I'm not going to
other than to mention that the Platypus Party (coding them via animals to avoid any hint of who they are, CGPGrey style) Headquarters is along Market Street and the Kookaburra Party are also around a lot. They were all sucky too, but not in a way to do with their politics; more just getting involved in the suck where they shouldn't. 
I had to stop my avoidance of Market Street because the home furnishings shop is down there and I need to get new curtains - mine have gone mouldy!! >.< I found that, because of the explosion yesterday, most of the shops down there were closed, with hastily-scrawled messages in the windows saying 'Closed due to Power Cut'. Funny thing was that in many shops lights were still on - I figured that the lights and the tills etc. were on different circuits, and one working despite the substation blow-out didn't mean the other was too.
However there were many other people who were rattling doors, banging on windows and swearing to whomever was unfortunate enough to be listening. Ponden Mill was 'lights on nobody home' and it seemed that everyone's curtains had gone mouldy at the same time as I saw no less than three groups attempt to gain entry. One man just stood there shaking the door handles silently; another couple banged noisely on the door and said to me, or at least the general vicinity of where she thought a welcome ear was, "Oh for fuck's sake why can't they open?" -_-
And since it just happens to be election day, the Kookaburra Party were out in force and to be honest their presence just seemed to be making a bad situation worse, almost encouraging the SCs to complain. The Platypus Party's HQ was affected too, AFAIK (it was at the other end of the street), and this was making them crabby towards the Kookaburra Party people and I saw a full-on argument between two pairs going on over the shops!
Yeah I legged it. I didn't want to have to run the gauntlet of folk being kept from their precious shopping (Market Street is quite a long street!!) and other folk desperate for me to exercice my civic duty in their favour...I just headed home another way. I'm going to Winchester on Saturday and I'm going to see if I can get my curtains from C&H.
People!! A power cut is not the end of the world; there are other places to get things!! I didn't bitch because I know curtains aren't made of gold leaf made under a full moon!!
*sigh*
Now I've been avoiding Market Street recently. If you like in the UK and watch a programme called The News, you can probably guess why by looking at my location. I live in Eastleigh and we have a by-election going on - for the last three weeks it's been nothing but candidates, candidates, candidates. If you're pig sick of hearing about it, think how we feel!! While I'd love to bitch incessantly I'm not going to
other than to mention that the Platypus Party (coding them via animals to avoid any hint of who they are, CGPGrey style) Headquarters is along Market Street and the Kookaburra Party are also around a lot. They were all sucky too, but not in a way to do with their politics; more just getting involved in the suck where they shouldn't. I had to stop my avoidance of Market Street because the home furnishings shop is down there and I need to get new curtains - mine have gone mouldy!! >.< I found that, because of the explosion yesterday, most of the shops down there were closed, with hastily-scrawled messages in the windows saying 'Closed due to Power Cut'. Funny thing was that in many shops lights were still on - I figured that the lights and the tills etc. were on different circuits, and one working despite the substation blow-out didn't mean the other was too.
However there were many other people who were rattling doors, banging on windows and swearing to whomever was unfortunate enough to be listening. Ponden Mill was 'lights on nobody home' and it seemed that everyone's curtains had gone mouldy at the same time as I saw no less than three groups attempt to gain entry. One man just stood there shaking the door handles silently; another couple banged noisely on the door and said to me, or at least the general vicinity of where she thought a welcome ear was, "Oh for fuck's sake why can't they open?" -_-
And since it just happens to be election day, the Kookaburra Party were out in force and to be honest their presence just seemed to be making a bad situation worse, almost encouraging the SCs to complain. The Platypus Party's HQ was affected too, AFAIK (it was at the other end of the street), and this was making them crabby towards the Kookaburra Party people and I saw a full-on argument between two pairs going on over the shops!
Yeah I legged it. I didn't want to have to run the gauntlet of folk being kept from their precious shopping (Market Street is quite a long street!!) and other folk desperate for me to exercice my civic duty in their favour...I just headed home another way. I'm going to Winchester on Saturday and I'm going to see if I can get my curtains from C&H.
People!! A power cut is not the end of the world; there are other places to get things!! I didn't bitch because I know curtains aren't made of gold leaf made under a full moon!!
*sigh*
HI NEIGHBOUR!! 
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