It’s been a strange day for the first day of the week. At about 10am, our workplace, along with all of the others in the vicinity, came to a grinding halt because we had a power failure. It was a clear indication, if we needed it, of how we totally rely on it these days.

I was despatched to talk to our neighbours to check that it wasn’t just us and made friends with a group of chaps from the place over the road who were very concerned about whether the bears in the bearhouse would be OK with no power. I assured them they’d survive and invited them up for a teddy bears’ picnic!

Anyway, after doing all of the odd jobs that can be done without computers and the internet and there being still no sign of a resolution to the power problem, I decided to phone home and see if we were with “juice” at home. When the answer was a resounding “yes”, I loaded my files onto a memory stick from my battery-powered work laptop and came home to work at home.

It was lovely to be able to find a solution to the problem that was a win:win – the company got a full day’s work out of me and I got a full day’s hours to put onto my timesheet. Hurrah for the “stoneage” solution of decamping to a place with more favourable conditions.