The last 24 hours has been One of the busiest 24 hours so far. A combination of an increase in viewers in the last couple of weeks (probably a greater interest in the election) and a mass of searches for the Ipswich power cable thief.

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The link also seems to have been emailed a few times as well.

Ipswich Spy emailed me to upbraid me for finding this funny, which I don’t aside from the natural selection angle. I’m not in favour of capital punishment for cable thieves even when I was caught on the train for two hours when they nicked £1,500 worth of signalling cable. It would have been far funnier if he had knocked himself out and got caught.

I only had dimmed power and my alarm clock which resets at every fluctuation in the atmosphere is still going on, but I’ve got a lot of searches about the power cut in Ipswich so I thought I’d point searcherrs in the right direction.

It seems like it was a burglar who was stealing copper wire from a power station and the power station did a Tony Martin and killed him.

The electricity cut that caught those of us in Rectory Road (as well as Wherstead Road, Station Street and who knows where else) did not come on in our house until 1.30 pm because they had somehow managed to trip our power switch and we had to call out an electrician.  Luckily we did not open the fridge or freezer or we could have been throwing away almost a weeks worth of food. 

These cuts have been very frequent in the last six months, even if not as long lasting.