@ PJM
Providing you live near a well (and you'd be surprised at how many of them still exist out in the sticks) then it is possible to cope without power.

It's less common now, but go back just five years and out here we used to lose mains water every summer for a day or two each month!

And in the winter if there's any snow it tends to drift across the fields and cut us off if we have more than half an inch of the white stuff. The electricity was always dodgy up until a couple of years ago too.


And to think I live only just over an hour outside of London!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 10:40, Reply)