OK, it's time to post the story about the electricity in the upper part of the village.Our transformer, pictured here in all its antique glory, got overloaded and failed. Mikho (top) and some experts from Mestia took a look last week and, among other things, installed some new ceramic insulators - I hardly know anything about electricity, except that it shocks you and runs things, and what insulators look like. But I had to be on hand to see what they'd do, and how slender is our hope. This is a second-hand beast, this transformer, and not powerful enough for the winter load on it. So we're forbidden from using electric heaters; yesterday it was -17 C in the morning, and -2 in my bedroom. Under my 4 blankets, I sleep very well, thank you, thank God too. We're now waiting for a rumoured new transformer of greater capacity to arrive this month, transforming our lives along with the electricity...
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