Power cut tea
21.08.2023 - 12:04
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/ Emma Doughty
One of the things Ryan and I like to do is sit and make a cup of tea in the garden, for which we use a Kelly Kettle that can quickly boil water using very little fuel (even in inclement weather). We’ll enjoy it even more when the garden is finished and we have somewhere to sit!
It’s now 8 months since we moved into this house, which is in a more rural area than either of us has lived in before. It’s dark, and quiet, at night, and we love it. But it does come with it’s share of rural experiences – the smell of freshly-spread manure being one of them, although it’s not an everyday occurrence. Last year we found ourselves without water for 24 hours, when the main burst in the nearby village. It was fun to start with, but then you find out just how many times a day you need to wash your hands…. But we survived, and would do better if it happened again.
Our burgeoning outdoor cooking skills came in handy on Friday evening, when a problem at a local sub-station left us without power for a couple of hours. We have battery packs and mobile internet, so we weren’t incommunicado or even without entertainment. We had torches and candles, so we could achieve any necessary levels of lighting. It wasn’t even that dark outside to begin with – we hadn’t had the lights on before the power went out.
So we were fine, but I thought it might be a nice time to have a cup of tea, and so we went out into the garden and lit the Kelly Kettle. It had been a humid and damp day, and it was spitting a bit with rain, but that didn’t bother us or the kettle, which we set up on the patio.
It takes a little bit longer than an electric kettle, but we spent a few minutes looking at the plants in the garden, and discovered that the flowers on the catmint are
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