I'm going to give you something of a world exclusive here.

A couple of hours ago a lady rang the newsroom at the radio station. When I answered she said she'd given us a call because she "just wanted to moan".

This is usually the cue for ten or fifteen minutes of thinly veiled abuse from a member of the public dissatisfied with the work we're doing in some shape or form. But it turned out that the lady didn't want to moan about us - she wanted to moan about her electricity company.

Now you'll remember we had some mightily blustery times on Thursday, as a rather large storm passed over Berkshire and the other Home Counties. Well after the worst had passed, this lady discovered a live electricity cable dangling over her driveway, just underneath head height. It had been brought down in the storm and while all the other houses in her street still had power, she didn't - except for the death-trap swinging to and fro near the front door.

Naturally she rang the electricity company to report this as quite an urgent matter, and she says they agreed. They'd send someone over, and in the mean time she and her family were to remain indoors and on no account venture out near the cable.

That's all well and good, but it took the electricity company over a day - in fact, nearly two - to turn up! The lady was busy telling me the story on the phone when she broke off to answer the door, and in the background I could hear a gentleman explaining he had come from the electricity company about the cable (clearly he'd made it past said cable to the door - it would be unfortunate to electrocute the electrician).

So this poor lady has been trapped in her home for a couple of days, afraid to leave for fear of sending however many thousand volts down her spine. Somehow she seemed quite chirpy about the whole thing, whereas I'm sure I'd be on the point of murder if I had things to do and couldn't get past my door unless I diced with death.

What would have happened had one member of the family fallen victim to the cable? What if a neighbour happened by and failed to notice it? What if the postman suddenly found his round curtailed when leaning back up from their letter box? Who would be responsible for the horrific accidents that could have taken place? The owner of the property or the electricity company charged (sorry) with maintaining the cable? I'm hoping we get her on our breakfast programme on Monday, it should be really interesting.

The storms have apparently also taken their toll on Basingstoke Town FC. Some of the exterior walls at the club's ground have been blown over - and the club are getting one of their fans to fix it! According to their manager, who spoke to me earlier, a supporter named Cliff is a dab hand at this sort of thing.

It reminds me of Slough Town's Darron Wilkinson, who's just taken over as Slough manager having previously been a player. In 2004, when they played Walsall in the FA Cup, the FA said Slough's ground needed segregation for home and away fans putting in. It just so happened Darron was a scaffolder, so he ended up installing the extra facilities, then playing on the pitch!