Introduction A power cut always seems to occur after dark on the coldest night of the year, midst a riveting TV programme; when the idea of making a coffee has just crossed your mind, along with the thoughts of making a warm snack during the commercial break. Never is there a torch, close to hand and all matches, lighters and candles have long since disappeared under a mountain of clutter in the Odds and Sods drawer. - That, my friends, is Murphy's Law in action, better known perhaps as Sod's Law. Experience has taught me to keep a small torch by the telephone so that I know exactly where to ...
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