http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102880 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:37:19 +0000 writinginbsl 102880@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yay!</p> <p>thanks for the kind words all</p> <p>considered that the fire &amp; rescue services had to use cutting gear to get people out of their chairs etc but this seemed a bit harsh...</p> <p>was a bit nervous about posting as a newbie but may try another one day! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102875 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:31:12 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 102875@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good stuff. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102874 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:30:11 +0000 dvo4fun 102874@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Superb. High 5 </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102873 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:16:05 +0000 brownpaperreporter 102873@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>love the bit about the childrens names .... 5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102831 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:42:21 +0000 Username 102831@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cool! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102829 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:09:20 +0000 waylandsmithy 102829@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Majestic. Love it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102824 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:32:22 +0000 Perks 102824@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Funny and no doubt true. Solar powered stars for you </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36682#post-102821 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:22:42 +0000 writinginbsl 102821@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A family in Berkshire was in ‘social crisis’ yesterday as the electricity supply was unexpectedly cut off for a whole day.’ It was awful’, commented mother of three, Sophie Havlard’. ‘I knew my family were in the house somewhere but we all usually just sit in our own rooms on the internet, watching tv or playing on the xbox. I knew I had to go and talk to them but I had forgotten how many rooms there are and whose room was whose. Normally if we need to ‘talk’ to each other we usually just update our statuses on FB, or as a last resort text each other with a msg’. It came as quite a shock to me to remember just how many other rooms there are in the house, apart from mine-I was quite short of breath with the effort’.</p> <p>Sophie’s partner, Dave, took up the story. ‘I was pleasantly surprised to note that my partner actually has quite a nice face, as do the children-if I do look up from my laptop at any point all I usually see is just a glimpse of the top of their heads. Dave admitted to also being somewhat surprised at the size of his children. ’Last time I remember seeing them they looked a lot younger than they do now’ he observed, but he admitted he wasn’t sure the last time he and the children had actually been in the same room. ‘It may have been with the delivery of the xbox’, he remembered, ‘but we were all trying to get it out of the packaging at once; it was something of a frenzy, so we realised we needed one each. That was the last time I saw any of them, I think. To be honest, they do seem much fatter now, too’.</p> <p> The emergency was ended when one of the children, who could not actually be identified by the parents, had enough power left in his mobile phone to ring the fire and rescue service, who led the family to safety. The childrens’ names have not been printed as they are still the subject of considerable speculation by the parents. </p>