Power problems and Coventry Blaze v Nottingham Panthers

As we were about to get ready to go out there were some power problems at mum's. All the mains electrics went off. Sam and I spent an hour or so flipping fuse box switches and unplugging and plugging things in and we thought we had it all sorted so we all jumped in the car and headed out.

Our destination was Coventry Skydome to watch the ice hockey game between Coventry Blaze and Nottingham Panthers. We were delighted to see Jinty from Edinburgh there who we haven't seen since the wedding so it was good to have a quick catch up.

The Skydome was rammed for this game which was encouraging to see. Plenty of Panthers fans in the house too who were in good voice. The game was not an elegant affair. It was quite chippy with a little bit of argy bargy with Panthers player Farmer being ejected from the game.

It was quite a close game and it was only Blaze's inability to work up anything on the power play that let the Panthers get off light. That and Panthers wandering goalie who nearly cost them a couple of goals through crazy play. As it was the game ended Coventry Blaze 2 Nottingham Panthers 3 so we all left happy.

It was great to be back in a rink again. We might watch a lot of NHL games these days but you can't beat actually being there.

We got home to find that our fix for the power wasn't permanent and once again there was no mains. Fortunately the oven circuit was working so we could at least eat and we could boil water on the electric hob. Early nights were had with a view to calling the electrician first thing. Fingers crossed we can get hold of one that can come out quickly.