Electricity Cut and Veg Stall Confusion

 

This was the view from my window earlier this morning, as the men from Welsh Water were waiting for the men from the electricity company to arrive to mend the cable.  They had cut the cable while they were digging the trench for the new water pipe because they hadn't known it was there - it wasn't marked. 

So far, they've come along the road outside the Cinema Bookshop, down Belmont Road, and are now heading along Broad Street.  They are going to be digging test trenches at the top of Newport Road in a month or so to find out where the pipes are, and they've had a lady with electronic equipment walking back and forth across the road outside Broad Street Book Centre - where she reported that there were three pipes in different places across the road!  It's a more complicated job than it first appears!

So we were about 3 hours without power at Y Gelli Chambers, which meant that the Old Electric Shop had to close because of the lack of lights.

It's been a day of confusion all round - when I went up to the market, the veg stall had been laid out the opposite way to normal, and nobody was sure which way to queue!  Usually the fruit is nearest to the Cheese Market and the veg is nearest to the Castle, and the queue goes from the onions to the oranges.