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From 9 O'clock tonight until just now, I've been sitting here in the dark, couldn't watch telly, couldn't use the computer, couldn't even have a shower. I've been reading my book by a tea light! Damn power cut.

Makes you think what it must have been like before electricity.....awful.:(

It's just come back on now. Does anyone else in Ossy ( Garinda, Panther, Gayle) know what happened to make it go off? :confused:

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I heard about this from My uncle. I came on here to see what might have happened.

My son said it was lightening earlier, I thought it could have been something to do with that, but maybe not.

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mine went off from 830 ish - came back on about 10 mins ago - must have been a big one - usually if my electric goes off my mums doesnt but hers has aswell tonight so i should imagine a few parts of the grid have been affected
by what i dont know

maybe it was the gnome :D

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lost all power for about 10 secs here (central accy) mucked me computer up,missed stanleys 1 st equaliser around 8-40,was not impressed.:(

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Very odd!! Nothing happened to mine. Which is a good job, as I was half way through kicking my uncles arse on XboX live - golf Tiger woods :D

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Power went for about two seconds down here as well, it upset a lot of burglar alarms otherwise did a reboot, I used the time to make a brew.

Just thought it's Wednesday, that's the day rindy usually does his hair, Super deluxe Hair dryer on extra blow and his curling tongs plugged into the same socket, no wonder Ossy went dark.
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I wondered why the floodlights dimmed at half time. I thought Eric was playing with the meter box!

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On way home from Stanley I noticed power was off from Dill Hall lights (lights not working either) all the way to Henry St lights, all church was off, coming up Union Rd was OK till about the palladium then they were off from there up to the Ossy town hall area, top end of Ossy was Ok

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Chris phoned United Utilities about half an hour ago to find out when the power would be back on and they said, probably about half six in the morning, then it came on about 10 minutes later.

Apparently it's in pockets all around Accy and Ossy - so not just over here.

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Oh so there is still chance mine will go off?? I thought I had been lucky.

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No probably won't go off now but some people around accy might have to wait a while before they're back on.

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I'm between the Palladium and Town Hall and my electricity didn't go off.

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Yeah true!! will be quiet on here tonight :)

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ya wern't havin a brew at rindys?:D

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How strange. That's where I am but we were plunged into darkness. It was only for about an hour but felt like much longer.

No telly, no computer. Me and hubby had to have a conversation! :eek::D

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My lights just dimmed for about 2 seconds!! did anyone elses, my uncles did too, he is on AVE parade.

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Lights just flickered here, gonna turn PC off before it goes off :)

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Just a quick up date, church is out again!!

Better than the news this place :D

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Oh no.....mine's just flickered. Please don't let it go off again.:(

I shall set the alarm on my moby for the morning in case the leccy goes off again in the night and messes up my digital clock.

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Hurrah!!!!

Light!

My friends in Gran Canaria called my mobile, my landline being down, and I told them we were having another power cut, the second since the earthquake. They killed themselves laughing, as they think the U.K. is now like Beirut. Come to think of it....

I was just playing the quiz, when total blackness descended. Luckily I managed to find my lighter, and then a candle, before making sure the lady next door was ok, and giving her a candle too.

I tried to find a battery radio I have, but gave up looking when wax was poured in my underwear drawer. So, unable to even read much by candlelight, I lay on the sofa, covered in a blanket, and remembered the power cuts of the seventies, when our house was the only one in Ossy with lights, and a portable television, thanks to the generator powered by a massive windmill my dad built on top of the garage.

Thanks to Neil for phoning to see if I was ok, and if I needed anything, and for happily informing me his house was ok.

Oh well, at least the house smells wonderfully of lavender and vanilla.

Damn, the lights are flickering, I'd better post this quick.

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mine have been dippin again - oh well if it goes it goes - not the end of the world - just makes me feel ashamed because it makes me realize how much i must be contributing to carbon footprint

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Strange :rolleyes: as my sis said her's went off and she's only down the road from you

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That is weird Jacky!!

My lights dimmed about 5 mins ago, and I have just had news up date that Church is off again!!

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It's not until it's off, that you realise just how much we take electricity for granted.

Time just drags, no wonder there was a baby boom, following the power cuts in the seventies.:D

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That is so true. We'd just got round to having a conversation.....who knows where we'd have ended up if the power had been off all night! :eek:

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mines just been off again couple of seconds,had to reboot.:(

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Whats happening tonight is a different kind of cock up rindy.
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If it goes again, we should storm the Civic Theatre, and seek refuge.

I've printed off some Vera Lynn songs, and have a spare gas mask if anyone needs it.

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And that is unusual for you because?

It was fun at the Area Council Meeting which was help in Rhyddings school. I would have thought the school would have emergency lighting. Is was a black as the ace of spades in their drama room or whatever the one with the tiered seating is called. On the bright side I did manage to acquire a pocket full of biscuits while the light were out :D:D:D

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That sounds like a good idea.

I would love to come and sing the hits from the blitz with you.:D

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What did you, Peter Britcliffe, and Gayle, get up to in the dark, when the lights went off at the end of the meeting?

I hope none of you are bringing a sexual assault case, against either, or both, of the other.:eek:

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Hey, don't knock that Garinda !.. remember was doing 'Pyjama Game' at the Civic Theatre during the 4 hour power cuts .. 'course went during our show didn't it :( .. had to keep the audience entertained with 'Songs From The Shows' 'til they came back on .. just during my striptease number too (in the best possible taste of course) ... :D

Couple of power surges in Clayton .. nothing else. Word of warning .. listened to the dangers of t-lights in a programme the other day. Without going into detail of the tragidies that ensued ... THEY HAVE TO BE PUT IN A PROPER CANDLE HOLDER/NOT MEANT TO STAND ON THEIR OWN IN THAT TIN FOIL CONTAINER . BURNS THROUGH .. BEWARE :dflam::dflam:

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No, sadly, no cases to be brought.

Although Neil did spend a lot of time watching my rear whilst the lights were on! ;)

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Being a gentleman I offered Gayle a lift home but she declined.

Don't worry she would have been perfectly safe, as mentioned at the meeting the picnic area of Haslingdon old road is closed and will not reopen :eek::rolleyes::D

I even phoned her to make sure she got home ok and see if she needed anything, like I did with you.

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What do you mean sadly? :eek:

You have stopped winking at me so I gave you your front door key back.

As far as watching you backside you were stood in front of me giving your presentation. As mentioned before I am a gentleman so I did not look, beside that it was dark where I was sat for some reason, maybe I was sat in a shadow :p

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Yes, that was very gentlemanly of you, thank you. :)

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if P.B. had used his noddle he could have got away with silly cowing every woman tonight.:D

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And I doubted there was a God :rolleyes::D

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Yes, now that I've stopped winking at everyone i'm even less likely to have any offers :eek:

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[quote=katex;545139 Word of warning .. listened to the dangers of t-lights in a programme the other day. Without going into detail of the tragidies that ensued ... THEY HAVE TO BE PUT IN A PROPER CANDLE HOLDER/NOT MEANT TO STAND ON THEIR OWN IN THAT TIN FOIL CONTAINER . BURNS THROUGH .. BEWARE :dflam::dflam:[/quote]

Thanks, Katex. I didn't know that. I just put mine out as they came, in the tinfoil thing. Good job they weren't lit long. I didn't know they burnt through! :eek:

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I don't know, I think young Ricky took a shine to you :eek:

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I have seen people put them in a shallow dish of water so they don't damage anything.

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That an insult then ? :p

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Either Hijacked Less or Neil and Gayle are flirting..... can't decide yet :D:D

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Off topic, sorry, but when it used to be open there was a plaque, naming the various hills visible from the panorama, and on the bottom it said who donated the land to be a picnic area, I think it named one of the Proctor farming family, if my memory serves me well.

I read the council now say they don't know who owns it, which is a load of rubbish, and more than a little frightening if true, and doesn't bode well for any other records H.B.C. are supposed to be keepin on our behalf.

Up until it's recent closure the bins were emptied by somebody from the Countryside Alliance.

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I am allowed, unless you don't want the cartridges ;)

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It was someone using their noddle, whilst in total darkness, that worried me.:eek::D

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I also find it hard to understand how the Council does not know who owns land in its Borough. Then again LCC are not sure either. It looks like it is owned by United Utilites but it would cost too much money to reopen it due to the constant problems up there. Fly tipping being one of them.

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so the plot thickens.:eek:

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Whats that bit of land called??

I have always know it as sh:ggers car park :o

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LOL yes it's been that for years. :)

They should get an official sign made up.:D

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That's what they're trying to say. I doubt very much the land was given to the water authority by the farmer.

Yet again another amenity vanishes.

The same way Oswald House, at the bottom of Rhyddings Street, was given to the council, and which was used as a museum, before they sold it off.

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I must admit I was going to ask the dog warden if he could sort the area out but the lights went out a couple of minutes after the meeting ending so I did not get chance :rolleyes:

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Now there's a thing us Accywebbers could be getting on with :D

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What shagging, are you sure Ginger wont mind a few AccyWebbers showing you what you are missing? :D

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Oh my goodness Lilly .. you must not do that .. trying to find the link .. was on Jeremy Vine's Monday programme ..found it .. can't just work it. Tea-lights .. frightening. You must not put them out on their own like that !

Perhaps someone else can do it for me to warn others.

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Yes, yes, yes .. want the cartridges pretty please. Sticks and stones and all that .. so don't mind an insult here and there.. :D

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The only thing I'm missing is a good ssssssssssssssssssssssssssleep! :)

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is this the one Katex ??

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lmao....sorry

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Well, 'sort of Slinky .. :spank:

Sorry, serious hat on tonight .. really deaths have been caused by this practice, particularly amongst university students who think it is cool, but far from it .. very, very hot. If you had listened to the mother whose fireman son (and his colleague) had been killed by someone putting one on top of their telly, you would understand.

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I only put that, because I googled Jeremy Vine - tea lights. That was the very first thing that appeared in google. I tried to search for the one you was talking about and can't find it anywhere.

Google it........

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Well I can find the replay thingy .. but not sure how to do it .. can't get any further than the right hand side where it tells you to 'Listen again' but worth listening to if you can:-

BBC - Radio 2 - Shows - Jeremy Vine

In the meantime, please use a proper candle holder Accywebbers.

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You can listen to the feature on Monday's Jeremy Vine's show here.


BBC - Radio 2 - Shows - Jeremy Vine

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Snap.........:D

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This was the sad story that inspired the feature on Jeremy Vine's programme.

BBC NEWS | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | Fire death mother in safety plea

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Ah, thanks Garinda.. yes, the mother was being interviewed, she was magnificent .. hope it does some good.

Ok ..you lot back to the sex and black-outs .... :D:D

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No problems up here - mind you being in rossendale does help.... :D:D:D

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nah jen it was electricity not gas.:D

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Just noticed the thread....my power was still on all night!
how come everyone gets a power cut apart from me....LOL

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Mine went off at about 8.50pm I was just sitting down to watch The Apprentice, and was even more worried that i'd miss Torchwood!!! lol.

Harry was petrified, it was quite amusing though because he was stood in the middle of the room when it went off and started trying to run around and I had to start trying to find him! We all jumped into the car and went up to my Dads on Bright Street it was fine up there.

The lights were on from Rhyddings Street upwards on Union Road. I don't know if there was something on at the Town Hall but there were loads of people stood outside when I was going up to my Dads. That must have been scary half way through a show and the lights go off, and you have to get down all them stairs!

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Normally if your house lights fuse, there's still the glow from the street lights, but it really was pitch black last night.

I felt like Audrey Hepburn in 'Wait Until Dark', scambling around trying to get my bearings, and a lighter for the candles.:D

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It was wasn't it.

All the street lights were out here and because we only have Foxhill Bank infront, there was no glow from anywhere.

After i'd rescued Harry from the middle of the room I nearly knocked myself out looking for my mobile to get the camera flash out!

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Are we talking from experience slinks:D

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Well my lights just flickered around 10ist, thats the John's Street Estate

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More like John Inman in "Are You Being Served" :p

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'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid'.;)

Better pack away your tartan trews.:D

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LMAO, sorry I thought that was funny...... was it because he lives on Bright street that he didn't have a power cut, I wonder :rolleyes::D



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whereabouts did this power cut happen??

top of ossy or bottom end nr ossy mills?

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At the bottom end near Ossy Mills. Also affected Church and Dill Hall Lane.

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well i wasnt affected amd i live nr ossy mills:rolleyes:....come to think of it i have never had a power cut since iv been ere:D

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It was in todays paper.

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LMAO Neil Oh that is funny :D:D:D

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lol....is that who i think it is, that is mentioned in the ' paper '...?

how did ya do it??

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Thought the name of the student was Melanie Neil?:D:D:D

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Shut ya face tart bag :p

I aint no student :D

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melanie?...whos that?....

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aaahhhhhhh......:o

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I just scanned in today's Ossy Times ;)

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Who says its you? :D:D:D:D

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love it neil....................:alright: