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We've got the power!

Waited at the house from just before 8am for someone from the electricity company to come and wipe down the meter - despite being a card meter it's somehow accrued £115 debt.
He turned up just before lunchtime and sorted it out - he was a lovely, lovely man, very kind and friendly and explained to me how card meters work and said if he had it his way, he would have come and put a normal meter in for me today. Letter from npower says it could be six weeks to switch to them and get a new meter.. argh.
I then went out to top the card up, struggled to find a place that did it, got lost in the rain and very very wet. I should also mention that by this time I was starving hungry, but the simple matter of finding something hot to eat proved tricky as well. In the end, with three sausage rolls in my belly, and £10 on the electricity card, I returned home to see the moment of truth.. climbed up the ladder, put the card in, flicked the big switch and a couple of the circuit breakers, and lo; there was light!
I was then witnessed by our next door neighbour to do my special "we've got electricity" dance while trying out light switches, and celebrated by breaking out the wallpaper steamer onto the remains of the hideous yellow, orange and silver wallpaper that the previous occupants had favoured in the dining room. Admittedly there wasn't much left to take down, as Chris and I had discovered that it peeled fairly easily and had had a mad half hour one evening just running round pulling the paper down.
Today also saw the arrival of the very sexy tiles for the bathroom. People aren't going to be able to resist the lure of our shower and bath when we've finished, it's going to look the mutts nutts!