Telly, torrents and aerials

I am beginning to wonder if The Athenaeum Club destined never to have TV reception again.

I want to phone the aerial contractors to ensure that they haven’t forgotten that they are supposed to be coming along to do the work on Saturday. Trouble is, in a morning I am not awake enough to go into the lounge and pick up the Yellow Pages and give them a call to check. So I forget. There seems little point in calling them when I get hone in an evening as that is usually later than 7.30; there will be no-one there.

Add to this low level continuing incompetence the fact that the weather forecast has possible snow and generally adverse weather forecast for tomorrow and Saturday and you have to wonder who in their right mind would wish to nip up on the roof of a three storey building in a howling gale just to fix a TV?

We don’t watch a huge amount of TV as it is transmitted and we don’t tend to record much either. Most TV entertainment comes from DVDs and torrented material not available to those without satellite, but dammit, just vegging in front of the telly sometimes is nice.

Add to that the fact that torrents are unreliable – I have last night’s Torchwood but Monday night’s City of Vice hasn’t made an appearance on any of the torrent sites I frequent (clearly I am the only demand for it) and the odd other programme has failed to make the torrents too, so it would be nice to be able just to watch the brute. Especially as I am paying the bloody TV licence.

The first precursor of this weekend’s poor weather arrived this lunchtime, persuading me against wandering off down Victoria Street to book an appointment for an eye test. I think I shall do that this evening on the way home. No need to get soggy twice in a day after all.

Telly, torrents and aerials

I am beginning to wonder if The Athenaeum Club destined never to have TV reception again.

I want to phone the aerial contractors to ensure that they haven’t forgotten that they are supposed to be coming along to do the work on Saturday. Trouble is, in a morning I am not awake enough to go into the lounge and pick up the Yellow Pages and give them a call to check. So I forget. There seems little point in calling them when I get hone in an evening as that is usually later than 7.30; there will be no-one there.

Add to this low level continuing incompetence the fact that the weather forecast has possible snow and generally adverse weather forecast for tomorrow and Saturday and you have to wonder who in their right mind would wish to nip up on the roof of a three storey building in a howling gale just to fix a TV?

We don’t watch a huge amount of TV as it is transmitted and we don’t tend to record much either. Most TV entertainment comes from DVDs and torrented material not available to those without satellite, but dammit, just vegging in front of the telly sometimes is nice.

Add to that the fact that torrents are unreliable – I have last night’s Torchwood but Monday night’s City of Vice hasn’t made an appearance on any of the torrent sites I frequent (clearly I am the only demand for it) and the odd other programme has failed to make the torrents too, so it would be nice to be able just to watch the brute. Especially as I am paying the bloody TV licence.

The first precursor of this weekend’s poor weather arrived this lunchtime, persuading me against wandering off down Victoria Street to book an appointment for an eye test. I think I shall do that this evening on the way home. No need to get soggy twice in a day after all.