So we live in Africa … and we have electricity issues. Load shedding and the impact thereof is such a hot news item at the moment as Eskom tries to keep the electricity grid stable. The traffic lights are out, it takes longer to get home, we're stressed, meetings go bad as the stress spills over and we can't open our electric gates and garages. Yet, in the midst of numerous messages from Eskom to conserve electricity to avoid more load shedding we seem to have a proliferation of the following:

Don't get me wrong … it's all quite festive and pretty (as my wife tells me), but rather irresponsible.