New years celebrations didn't go exactly to plan as the past week have proven challenges beyond expectation.
Firstly the freezing conditions have taken their toll as temperatures plummit to -5°c on average of an evening. That crossed with being stuck without power & heating on the blink with gas bottles freezing all made my living conditions pretty bleak.
I felt quite rightly depressed at spending long cold nights snuggled under the duvet, but the sun shone yesterday as I restored power & started getting things back on track.
The power failiure was a result of frustrated cows nibbling the leads between my car & the van and a very flat car battery connected to the secondary point on the van gave me intermittent heating when there was a bit of power.
Still, all told I survived.
Yesterday after copious amounts of insulation tape I got up & running again and started about charging my lifelines to the outside world, phone & pda.
When I powered the phone I thought all credit had been used but was still able to use skype for calls to family & friends to let them know I was ok.
Well things got better on checking my balance & a concerned call to customer services, being told I had €50 free credit & that my plan had been updated with my internet to €9.99 per month as opposed to the €25 I had previously been paying.
All in all I'm one happy bunny as I have also got money coming to me for a heating allowance backdated to September last year.
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