Unscheduled candlelit dinner for Holbeach couples
A POWER cut which hit 1,700 homes and businesses in Holbeach on Valentine’s night made couples dine out by candlelight, like it or not.
Popular restaurants on the south side of the High Street were fully booked on Tuesday night by couples intent on sharing a romantic evening for two.
Many were halfway through their meal when that side of the street was plunged into darkness for up to 45 minutes, along with much of the town centre including Fleet Street.
The cut started at 8.38pm, mid-way through the evening’s serving at the Dragon Pearl restaurant on the corner of St John’s Street.
Manager Steve Ha said: “We had to stop cooking for at least half an hour, so we turned away customers ringing for a takeaway.
“We took out candles for the tables but I wouldn’t describe it as a romantic candlelit dinner – it was too dark for people to see the food!”
Watthana Prasertsri of the Krua Thai restaurant in High Street said: “We were fully booked and some customers who’d had their starters didn’t want to wait for the power cut to finish. Those who stayed had drinks by candlelight until we started cooking again.”
Western Power was still investigating the cause of the power loss yesterday. Only three customers were still without power by the early hours of Wednesday.
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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peekachoo
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 09:43 AMohh so will there be a boom in babies in 9 months time? after all it was Valentines day..nudge, nudge.. wink, wink !!
LittleTyke
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 06:13 PMI'm fed up with power cuts and brownouts in Holbeach. I, too, suffered a cut on Tuesday that lasted only about three seconds, but it was enough to stop the computer working. Ten minutes later it happened again! This happens so regularly I'm going to get a UPS (uninteruptible power supply). Back in Buckinghamshire, whence I moved in 2004, we rarely got power cuts. I suppose out here in rural Lincs it's because so much of the power is transmitted via overhead power lines.
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