Stage Six Daily — Sunday

Slot said 14:00 to 16:30. Power went at 13:20 and came back at 17:05 with the smugness of something that knows it cannot be argued with. The roast was half done. The roast is now a story about a roast.

It is not that it gets cold here. It is that nothing in the house is built for the cold, so the cold simply moves in and sits down. By six the whole family is on one couch under everything we own, lit by a torch, like a very unsuccessful camping trip indoors.