Penguina,
By early evening yesterday, still with no electricity, and the wind outside making the pub 500 ft below in the village less than enticing, I decided cooking a good meal and opening a bottle of wine to go with it was as good a way to spend the evening as any. I too had been hoping to fly today, but couldn't check the 18 hour TAFs - battery on my laptop had expired several hours earlier.
When the power came on around 7.30 pm, after about 19 hours, I was delighted to find that "normal" high winds were expected today...since I'd had too much wine to make flying sensible. And for once they've got it right, which made me happy too.