Electrics

[poliphilo]

Ailz sourced an electrician from the internet

We took him on a guided tour of everything that wasn't working right.

He looked bemused.

He said he couldn't give us a fixed price for the job, but would charge an hourly rate.

I asked him what the hourly rate would be; he didn't know.

He said he'd ring the following day; he didn't.

So we're collecting standard lights that can be plugged into the sockets that still work. Who needs ceiling lights anyway? Carl says that in twenty years time we'll be sitting in a heap of ruins under a polythene sheet. 

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

There is that kid in Africa who taught him self physics and electricity so he could build his own windmill...

(But I'd never attempt it.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I did physics up to "O" level, then gave it up, rejoicing. i could kick myself now for not having learned more.