A New Year's Eve to remember

Whether it is a subtle reminder of the task ahead or not, life became difficult today. Not quite the anticipated New Year's Eve, but a memorable one all the same. In the middle of the night the power went. Nothing. Not even the two fuse boxes gave any clues. When we awoke, the situation was not any better, still no power, no water as the pump wouldn't work and there is no gravity feed, no oven and no heating. On top of this, there were no lights either, which in the trullo which we are in, despite it's beauty, it has limited apertures with which to let the light in. An opening of the front door the revealed the next problem. Snow. Proper snow. 40cm deep snow plus some drifting. A real smothering of the land around us.

Quite fantastic, which is the way we needed to view it, otherwise, negative thoughts may have compounded the lack of electricity. We embraced it with some snow madness, which lasted between 10min for Maya, and 30mins for me and Jasper.

Now is the problem though. It is 3pm, it is very cold, light will start to go and we only have a handful of tea lights. Logs are being whipped through as I speak. Resourcing is a problem shall we say! 

Unless there is an immediate remedy to the power situation, our New Year's Eve will be thus:

1. Supper at 4:30 so we will be able to see what we eat!

2. Champagne at 5:30 for the same reason. Party poppers and crackers!

3. Bed at 6pm whilst the remaining tea lights burn their way down.

4. Sit there in our sleeping bags and suffer the tortures of darkness whilst wide awake.

6:30pm

And that has pretty much been how it is. Tea was cooked by the light of 2 night light candles. It was therefore quite a guessing game constructing it and eating it. And now bedtime stories are happening in front of the fire. A vaguely remembered retelling of a book we have not brought, 'The Gruffalo', is happening with embellishments at the moment whilst all sit in their sleeping bags.

We will never forget this though, and when we are home in a few weeks, this will be a memory that we will look back fondly on!

.....I hope.

Ed