I was just walking home from a meeting this evening and noticed the street lights and house lights weren't on at the edge of the village: a very local power cut. I happened to know the community drama folk were rehearsing the pantomime in the hall, so I popped in to see how they were coping.
There they were, oom-pa-pa oom-pa-pa romping away at a song with all the electric heaters on for light, and a collection of candles blazing. The heaters created challenging conditions, as it's exceptionally mild weather at the moment (I'm at home with the back door open to get some evening air); and the candles might have had the health and safety officer reaching for the rulebook (I suspect he or she had had to be bundled into the panto-horse costume and left in a cupboard for the duration). Well it's just two weeks til curtain up, can't afford to let such concerns disrupt preparations. The panto is serious business round here.
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