So Mr and Mrs Prick returned from points north this evening literally just as the power went out in the Inner-West: Of course, the hippy-dippy Tibetan prayer flag house on the corner was well-equipped with candles that lit the place up from down the road. Likewise, and not at all surprisingly, local Greens MP Cate Faehrmann found the lights-out experience delightful.

A salutary reminder to all to get your emergency/survival/disaster kits in order: why should the Luddites, progress-haters, and techno-phobes have all the fun?