The Dark Ages

It seems we have entered our own dark ages in Lusaka these days. After having a steady power supply from last Easter until mid-January we have re-entered the world of regular power outages. The girls have gotten used to doing homework and having their evening showers by candlelight. We are slowly learning our own coping mechanisms like having dinner ready early – just in case. We’ve also learned to mark our light switches to show which lights are turned on and which are off (the switches are all different) so that we don’t have to get up in the middle of the night when the power comes back on and go around and turn off all the lights - a bitter lesson. Usually the power is only off for a couple of hours at a time as different areas of Lusaka get switched off at varying intervals to save power. This experience has made us feel for our Zimbabwean neighbours to the south who we hear are without power most of the time.