TWENTY SEVENTEEN - PART TWELVE

                                        TWENTY SEVENTEEN                - PART TWELVE

                                         Hello Folks, 



Wednesday 22nd  - Power 
is still off.  Charmaine informs me that the power went off yesterday  at 11 am, while we were in town.  The whole neighborhood is without power.

Apparently one of the power lines is down.  Power comes back on at 1pm.  It has been off for twenty five and a half hours.

Thursday 23rd - power is on and off all day.  We discover that when "Lucky's " wife is cooking it causes an overload and trips our power line. When that does not happen then Escom is at fault. It is a never ending circle.

Life is very difficult we cannot live without power. Everything revolves around it. It seems to be a bigger problem here, but maybe it is because of the wet weather.

Our bathroom wash basin is also pulling away from the wall if you so much as touch it it feels as if it is going to fall over.  The kitchen cold tap releases the water so slowly I timed it and it takes sixty five seconds to fill a two litre jug.

  The shower taps also give grief . You have to wash the soap off of you with jugs of water as the pressure of the shower is too low.  Fortunately Ruth does this for me as I would never be able to manage.  

 
 We do have some                     advantages here for which       we are extremely thankful -     the cockroach population         here is very  low. In fact we     seldom see one, and there       are no ants. 


But we do have the house fly problem. Which is pretty awful.

24th power on and off again all day.

Saturday 25th - Power goes off at midday and is still off at 3.30pm. All  batteries are very low and I can only use the laptop when it is plugged into a live electrical socket. Can't read as we have to keep the blinds down to limit the fly population, not that it helps very much and then it is too dark to read.  Ruth has bought some candles but it is too difficult to read by candle light.

Power comes on at 1 am  it has been off for thirteen hours. It is very difficult to cope with this. There is a limit to how much one can sleep so I  lie awake in the dark.

We must be thankful and content though. We have shelter which many people do not have. We have a roof over our heads, we have comfortable beds to sleep on and we have food and water.  I would much rather lie awake in the dark than be on the streets, homeless.

We continue to thank God for His grace and mercy and protection and provision. He is an awesome God. Without Him I would be living in despair. He is my strength and my shield. 

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