LET'S GO OUT AND FEEL THE NIGHT................

For those of you who find my incoherent rambling an irritation, feel free to try another blog. For the few who have seen how hard I try to describe the level of corruption to which our suburb is presently exposed - read on.

There are cables being laid across roads all over Sherwood. Nearly every Streetlight pole is now festooned with weird techno additions. I feel we are 'currently' the wirelss hub of South Africa.

Last night at 8.15pm, a massive power surge knocked out everything for a second and then the power was restored. This happened again at 9.30pm exactly. How much damage is this causing to residents electrical equipment? Sue the Book across the road (on the same series of powerlines) suffered the same surges. May I remind you that I have already been told by the official Faults line that I share a fuse with Prakash Balliram next door. Wizard of IT and connected to that dodgiest of people - Allen Spence - Superintendent of Electricity for Durban, amongst others.

I just love how many of you shrug and think it wont ever happen in your area.....

Newsflash guys - it is unstoppable and it Will be in your suburb soon, wherever you live. You might even get lucky and have your house renovated and a free wireless set up installed in the corner of your garden and think - wow! you've hit the jackpot....

'Fraid not chaps - you will in fact pay a heavy price for these bright carrots. Your privacy of any sort will be gone forever.

and please dont bother with the lame cries of paranoia - they are way passed their sell-by date. Rather give this some serious thought and when they come knocking on your door with their wonderful freebies and gifts, weigh up your choices carefully Before you accept.

You may notice that I have sung the same song for a very long time...surely if I were completely delusional as many would have you believe, I would have changed the plot several times by now?

Eh - good luck julle.... telecomms in SA are about to really take over your lives.

I begin now to wonder whether this is just the start of pay-back time once again....

it is overdue, as my 'Fairy Tales can Come True..' printout was delivered to Dilshaad over a week ago. Coincidentally, I've not seen their roof lit up brightly since then...*looks at Bali.... you have it on the lowest output?

The constant power dips we have been experiencing? Not just us but Sue the Book and I;m betting most of the residents on our series of streetlights... would this be this years Christmas gift from the PTB? Bring it on!!!

I sent 2 texts to Rudolph Mhlope last night. He now has the extremely apt title of Manager of Special Lights *laughin.....the poor man is a pawn in Allen Spences scramble for power and glory and there is no way I will consider him more than that....

Remarkably as well, Fred the Accountants 2 brilliant illuminations have been left off the past few nights.

Amazing bad luck or.........? at almost exactly 10 minutes after the first massive surge at 8.15pm last night, Sue the Book rang to say we should go up and check out the tableau unfolding at the bottom of Harris Crescent.

We hot-footed it up to see a car had crashed onto the island halfway down Black Hill on Jan Smuts highway. Surrounded by SAPS vehicles and more of the same arriving all the time. We were awash with police cars! Even a few Pinetown SAPS vehicles.

Sadly, der Kommissar was grounded, as his HiTech car swept by a few minutes after we arrived at the top.

I do feel sure that had he been airborne, they would have caught the culprits. Yes, the hijacked car was empty...*sigh...

*toady remembers well the perfectly scripted 'hanging' over the other side of the valley and has to wonder.....

There would surely have to have been someone killed to warrant that amount of SAPS attention last night? Will we get to hear the details? Was it pure bad timing that the chopper wasn't up? and again bad timing that Fred has his valley spotlight switched off?

Sue said the cops took dogs into the valley but I doubt they found anyone.

Was it just coincidence that Captain Courageous wasn't home even by 9.30pm? Missus Courageous made a brief appearance at their gate at some point but said nothing and vanished back down into their house. She is usually very sociable, though of late there has been a chilly silence from their direction...

As I sit here writing, its 4.22am. An audible click in the bedroom at 3.15am was what?

Where was my Hero last night while we were having the surges? Could he have been up at the station in the Ops room? *grins....

The situation is undoubtedly going to get a lot worse as I plod on relentlessly informing residents of the new and lifechanging technologies arrived in their quiet suburb.

I will of course blog any details of last nights beautifully executed operation, should they become available.

Bearing in mind that the fine print on the Muni Electricity forms states that they may NOT be held responsible for damages occurred by a faulty power supply on your property, I'm beginning to think its going to be an expensive Xmas for those unfortunate enough to share our series of streetlights..

*pukes in the direction of the corrupt...

At some point during the week, PM tells me some branches were swiftly removed from a large tree bordering her property, while she was out. Direct Line of Sight to the Convent again ja...

The amount of ? microwaves? or whatever, has intensified over the last week and the resulting symptoms are now constant.

Tread softly or you may find its the third and final KO round for the innocent Basil at No. 4 Harris Crescent. Would you care?

I DON'T THINK SO!

Later: Remarkably there have been no power dips this morning at all... which once again confirms that it is definitely not our system at fault.

Even later: Out and about, hither and yon....... a Captain up at the Station this morning tells me that a Beemer was hijacked in Kloof and chased right down to Sherwood where the hijackers escaped. The amazing amount of SAPS vehicles was due to the SAPS directive that every available officer be mobilised over the holidays. Brilliantly done and far more interesting than your average Lifeboat or Firedrill ... *heheh...

I was up at the station doing a Miss Marple search for my best cake container.

*the toad has no plans to stop baking cakes for the boys in blue over one (no, make that now 2) plastic containers, though the word Lame flitted fleetingly through its pointed head.

To my unbridled delight, Navi in the station finance office tells me she reads this blog. *curtseys and hopes this toad keeps many of them in stitches.....

It occurred to me that last nights show of Force *laughing.. could well have been a distraction. My missing Hero next door and the huge power surges? Kitt ii was only back in the drive this morning but I have yet to set eyes on Bali.

Is he looking somewhat singed?

The inordinate amount of metal scaffolding standing directly in front of St. Theresa's Rec. Centre has been suddenly decorated with tyres. I do realise that this scaffolding is supposed to pass for playground equipment i.e. jungle gym and swing. Alas, I dont buy it for a minute. No more than I can figure out the reason behind Bali's kiddy swing set, unused and incongruously set where the oscilloscope table thingie used to be.

The chopper up earlier this morning *beams....

I managed to find Livvy's white, computerised monitoring box and also to inform an anxious lady that her electric gates (which keep opening by themselves) would probably settle down once the Telkom wekkers stopped digging nearby. She lives over by Devon Terrace as I recall...o I nearly forgot.... the power surges last night? Livvie had a milder version right over in Loon Road!!! Not just our series of lights at all... interesting....

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Friday 15th December 2006 at 2.26pm