The last time I wrote about power cuts – outages – here in the US many readers thought, and wrote back, I was making too much of it. Some readers were aghast I even brought it up, coming as I do from a country where power cuts are as common as getting email. Read more

I had just returned from a run as I ducked into the shower, the lights went out. I thought the kids were up to something. But that was possible, they couldn’t access the switch. I was worried. Read more