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A fortunate discovery
Habits can be useful; they save one from having to think. This evening, as usual, I took out two slices of bread from the freezer to thaw overnight for my breakfast. I needn't have bothered; the bread was cold and limp, not icy and firm. Oh dear. The freezer was off. A quick check with a table lamp revealed the source of the problem; the socket was without power. I remembered that the socket was a spur off a socket in the sitting room. The sitting room is being redecorated and all the sockets have been unscrewed from the walls. I moved the suspect socket cover to see if any wires were disconnected, and heard the freezer come on. My diagnosis was correct. I left the socket alone as power was restored to the freezer. The p and d can sort it out tomorrow.
Fortunately, the two packets of minced lamb and the pack of sausages in the freezer were still frozen. I can eat a lot but even I couldn't have eaten all that in a few days; and the house is in no state for an emergency party.
Thought for today
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) English political theorist, Common Sense, 1776
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