A fluorescent light in our kitchen stopped working including the timer switch in the wall which controls it. It had flickered and then gone off and then would not go back on. It is not a circuit breaker problem because we checked all the circuits. At the same time a different light fixture also lost power to it in the basement. We don't think those are the only two items on the circuit, but those are the only two items which we could identify as having lost power.

" we checked all the circuits" how did you check? Did you test for power at the timer?