Originally Posted by fiddler

Tfw lunch is delayed to the point of it being supper time and I can (and did go home and eat) when you were promised steak for lunch. But apparently, no power means no steak for lunch. Because apparently the Army masters of the kitchen don't know how to use a field stove.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.