Consider this a late message from yesterday. Marie’s parents arrived in the morning and it promptly started raining. I guess the rainy season’s come early this year. They’ve moved into my study, and I’ve moved onto the living room benches. Unfortunately, the wireless router we use to connect to the internet is still in the study and we have more power problems than just blackouts.
Our last house had at least one multisocket plate in the wall in every room, capable of accepting European, Chinese and two types of Indian plugs. Here each room has two sockets, but they only take the least used of the Indian plugs. I’ve had to buy six adapters to get the basic items working. Only the oven didn’t need one. But having an adapter in the wall, a power board plugged into that and the other items plugged into that is an electrical engineer’s nightmare. If I got up from my desk too quickly, some part of the chain would break and everything would lose power.
I guess that’s what happened last night when I sat down on the living room bench to write. Marie’s parents, who’d gone to bed early after a 4am start to catch the plane, probably rolled over in their sleep and that was the end of my internet connection.