Hi, Fibre!

The best kind of home technology is indistinguishable from magic, discovered gus silber, after putting up with a lot before the magic began.

Has anyone got any water?’ asked a neighbour on our neighbourhood WhatsApp group. I rushed to the kitchen and turned on the tap. Water. ‘We have,’ I WhatsApped back, before wiping the splashlets off my phone with a tsk. Then followed a flurry of messages from other neighbours, who were ticked off that their taps had run dry. I turned the tap on again, and there was a gurgle and a hiss of air, and nothing. So I wandered outside to see what the problem could be, and that’s when I saw that it was raining. Not all over, just in one large area above a water main that had been turned into a spout. I watched the mighty surge, like a waterfall roaring in the wrong direction, drenching cars as they drove around the corner and slowed down to get a wash.