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.

I've been threatening to write this post for the last 6 days. Thankfully, today, I have managed to find a plug socket (spouting electricity) and an internet connection. That's a whole lot more than I've had at home for the last while thanks to the infamous sub-station fire 6 days ago. Besides the luxuries of electricity and a hot shower I managed to source today, the death of an elderly couple due to generator fumes inhalation over the weekend has prompted me ever more to write this.  read more »