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Every thing is illuminated... eventually and some Leeds Architecture

lions outside Leeds Town Hall
Have had to go to Leeds this week, family stuff... its a handsome city in spite of the monstrosities they have put up to house John Lewis and car parks...

one of the many stone statues that adorn the ornate victorian buildings
I wasn't terribly organised about coming to Leeds, but was able to stay at my son's flat while he's away in New York.   When I got there there was no electricity it was 10 o'clock at night and I was in a bit of a panic as because if no electricity - no wifi - and my phone was completely dead - and I didn't really know what to do with an electricity key ha ha especially an empty one!!! I didn't even know where the meters were in the building!!! the irony is that my son had said to use the flat and then said you know how to do the electric don't you and I of course had lied and rather blithely said oh yes...- what a joke - I ended up tramping the streets of city centre leeds with an empty useless electricity key to try and get it topped up and nowhere open.

not really sure what comment to make I think this is the new (hideous) multi story car park for John Lewis taken from bus so a bit blurred
In desperation to get assistance from my daughter I even tried to use a phone box!!

more tasteful modern building the Henry Moore Gallery 
I finally end up in a bar on my lonesome drinking a pint of ale - Ilkleys best beer so I could charge my phone and manage to ring my daughter and shout help me I'm stuck .. fortunately she explained that you get emergency electricity on these keys - expensive but necessary so eventually I was able to locate the meter in the spooky dark basement.   Thank goodness I'd some charge on my phone for a torch.. then I couldn't work out the key, starting to feel old and very tired - but eventually I was able to master this new fangled keep the lower classes in check technology and recharge in all senses of the word .. electric, phone, cup of tea, episode of Dexter on Netflix, nice sleep not on a futon...  ready to face another day of impending chaos.......



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