Well I bravely battled the winds, the rain, the fallen trees, closed roads, and other dangers to make it to the dojo for training last night.

Well, I braved all that after leaving the office early (Well tis hard to work in IT with no power) to get to PlanetPete‘s to play “Age of Empires II” then on to training. Where we did fun stuff which I can not mention on an open forum. :0)

Alas being the highest rank there I was used as the Instructors demonstration partner (Forcing my mind to wake up fast to keep up with what’s was going on).

Anyway I digress…

After training I head back home, looking forward to a quick shower, coffee, some warm food and a chill out in front the TV. Only to get home to no electricity, in fact it’d been off so long even the stuff with battery backups had failed..

So Had to train, then have cold drink (which was not so bad as I found a stash of can’s) some biscuits (The only food I could find that did not require cooking) then sitting about in candle light!  well that and the light from the laptop that I was using to watch a film!

Its actually very atmospheric watching a dark horror film in the dark with just the flickering light from candles…

What was that noise?