Aug
2010
What Lengths Will You Go To For A Cup Of Tea?
I stumbled from the bedroom, bleary eyed and still half asleep.
‘Mummy, juice mummy, I want a juice mummy.’
‘ungh’
‘Cartoons mummy, the cartoons mummy, want cartoons mummy.’
‘ungh.’
I carried on, my trajectory clear. The kettle. No-one was getting anything until I’d had my cup of tea. I flicked the kitchen lights on and filled the kettle. I set it on its base and flicked the switch, the pleasing sizzle of water warming, soon coming from it.
‘Mummy, juice mummy.
‘Umm. Minute.’ I managed, watching the kettle. Cup in hand.
Flick. It went dark. The kettle stopped sizzling, the lights went out.
‘Wha? No!’ I flicked the light switch feebly. Nothing. ‘Noo!!’ A power cut. Great.
I need a cup of tea in the morning. I cant manage the demands of these little dictators without having first scolded my mouth whilst curled up on the sofa for 5 minutes of quiet before the day starts.
10 minutes later, sulking at the kitchen table, sans tea, the lights came on again. A steady flick, flick, flick echoed around the house as various appliances turned themselves on, the kettle one of them, and I could hear the sizzle start again in the kitchen. I breathed a deep sigh and relaxed. All was right with the world once more.
And then ‘flick.’ Off it went again.
The next 30 minutes were filled with peaks and troughs of my hopes building and then being dashed again as the lights came on and the water warmed a little more, and then everything went off. I was getting close to breaking point. I was starting to twitch. I was actually considering having a warm cup of tea with the not nearly boiling water in the kettle.
‘Right, bugger this.’ I did what any sane person would do after being kept waiting for over 40 minutes for their first cup of tea of the morning.
I got the camping stove out.
westlondonmum.co.uk
August 30, 2010 at 7:10 am (1024 days ago)I feel you’re pain….i don’t function without it…there is always a good reason for a cuppa….go on make another!!
aussiejazz
August 30, 2010 at 7:35 am (1024 days ago)That reminds me….
Notes From Lapland
August 30, 2010 at 7:40 am (1024 days ago)Go and get that kettle on!
Notes From Lapland
August 30, 2010 at 7:40 am (1024 days ago)thankfully our electric is back on now -for the time being- so I’m drinking cup after cup. Just in case…
Steve
August 30, 2010 at 7:49 am (1024 days ago)Attagirl. Failing that if you rub two sticks together really fast you can make your own fire. Two lumps for me please and lots of milk.
Susie @ Newdaynewlesson
August 30, 2010 at 7:51 am (1024 days ago)LOL. Good for you! Don’t you have a gas burner? What about boiling a pot of water?
Anonymous
August 30, 2010 at 8:08 am (1024 days ago)Camping stove? Don’t you possess a normal cooker and a saucepan. Or even a microwave?
I feel your pain though, our kettle keep playing silly buggers and it’s next to impossible to buy kettles in Spain for some unknown reason.
Notes From Lapland
August 30, 2010 at 8:09 am (1024 days ago)Nope, no gas here. Everything runs on electric.
Notes From Lapland
August 30, 2010 at 8:09 am (1024 days ago)the state i was in this morning, if rubbing two stick together was my only option i would have done it!
Notes From Lapland
August 30, 2010 at 8:41 am (1024 days ago)we do of course have a cooker and a microwave but there was no electric!
Hence the reason the kettle wasn’t working. Maybe I need to re-write
this…
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Anonymous
August 30, 2010 at 9:28 am (1024 days ago)Exactly how I feel about my coffee. Yesterday my youngest ‘dictator’ greeted me first thing with ‘we have no cereal’. I won’t tell you how I responded, for fear of sullying this pristine blog!
Djkirkby
August 30, 2010 at 11:00 am (1024 days ago)If I had a camping stove it definetly would have been out. I am not human without a cup of tea or twenty.
Dara
August 30, 2010 at 11:21 am (1024 days ago)It’s my number one concern when our electricity goes. Tea and Coffee, how will we make it? You can eat unheated food, but not cold water for tea!
Meanwhile, I have to reheat it about 30 times in the microwave before I actually get to finish it, so I’d be at a loss without the electric anyway.
We had a big ice storm in Canada about 10 years ago and plenty of communities (cities even) lost their electricity for up to 3 weeks. My parents lived in one of the communities and I think it was the first time my mother admitted that Dad’s collection of campstoves was a good idea!
Misssy M
August 30, 2010 at 1:24 pm (1024 days ago)So it’ll be staying our permanently then…just in case?
jaxb
August 30, 2010 at 1:27 pm (1024 days ago)I’m not sure I’d have waited 40 minutes…
bronagh
August 30, 2010 at 1:42 pm (1024 days ago)Oh, I feel your pain!! Thankfully we’ve a gas cooker at home, so I have been known to resort to boiling water in a saucepan to make tea when the electricity goes
Kim @ Two Good Cookies
August 30, 2010 at 11:49 pm (1024 days ago)LOL. I’m a coffee drinker. But not quite to this extent. I LOVE that you got out the camping stove.
Anonymous
August 31, 2010 at 3:02 am (1024 days ago)Ha!! You are hard core. I don’t think I would even know how to work the camping stove. But you would probably have guessed that about me, huh?
WhimsicalWife
August 31, 2010 at 7:35 pm (1023 days ago)As would I have done! It is just not the done thing to deal with a day without first drinking tea!
PrincessL
August 31, 2010 at 8:14 pm (1023 days ago)Lol! I took to microwaving my hot water while I was briefly kettleless!
Tiina
September 1, 2010 at 3:54 pm (1022 days ago)I understand Heather very well….my husband does not bother talking to me before I have had my cuppa…difference is that it is Finnish black gold..coffee!!!
If I Could Escape
September 1, 2010 at 9:11 pm (1022 days ago)Oh no! During the 2004 hurricane season, we were left without power for almost a week. It was a nightmare — I ended up heating water on our BBQ for cups of tea. Not fun at all.
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