I have already mentioned the installation of a buffer tank and pump to tide us over the periods when our domestic water supply dries up. Our inverter should be installed soon that will assist by providing some electricity during the ever longer periods during each day that we are without. A large number of businesses and private home owners have gone as far as erecting solar panels on their roofs to harness the sun to provide electricity – we are not there yet.
It is a sad fact of life that one has to erect burglar guards on one’s windows these days. These are in our lounge, where I once caught young thieves red-handed as they were trying to steal our television and decoder.
Another sad fact – and necessity – is having home testing kits for Covid at hand: the brouhaha over the pandemic might have gone away, but the virus hasn’t!
Then there is the wonder of Wonderbags that keep on cooking one’s food – or keeping it warm – once load-shedding has kicked in.
Farm gates are a feature of rural areas – mainly to keep domestic animals from wandering into the roads.
Staying with electricity – its presence or absence tends to dominate our lives – are the various wind farms that have sprung up all over the country. This one at Waainek was touted as easing our town’s electricity woes … funny how all that was ‘forgotten’ or ignored once the population had been duped into agreeing to have the skyline blighted. No-one is able to quantify any benefits the town has received.
Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities, old Mother Nature’s recipes
That bring the bare necessities of life …
Song by Bruce Reitherman and Phil Harris