On Thursday the United Kingdom was hit by gale force winds of over eighty miles an hour. Yes, I’m sure that is considered a mere breeze in Texas or South Dakota or whatever, but we’re not used to this kind of thing over here.
Trucks and vans were blown over, trees were uprooted, millions of pounds worth of damage was wreaked, and even now there are still homes in the country which still have no power. All of this pales into insignificance however when compared to our TV arial being blown off the roof.
At least we think that’s what happened, we certainly can’t get a vast number of the channels that we used to be able to and our digibox says that we only have a 2% signal strength. Someone needs to get a ladder and climb up and take a look, but I can tell you now that person isn’t going to be me. I’ve seen too many Laurel and Hardy movies to make that mistake; the only thing worse would be to walk around a china shop with a plank balanced on my shoulders.
Our reduced choices in viewing has led to us seeing a few things that we wouldn’t normally choose to watch. It’s been quite educational in a way – the televisual equivalent to a foreign exchange trip. It can’t last however as one of the channels we’ve lost is CBeebies, a vital weapon of last resort in the ongoing struggle to distract Amy from prodding her baby brother with a sharp stick.
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“even now there are still homes in the country which still have no power”
And some poor sap is sat in an office telling them they’ll probably still be off tomorrow as well! Hey, the things we enjoy doing at 2 o’clock in the morning.
Volunteering to go roof climbing should I be anywhere nearby over the coming weeks, unless should the limited channels force you up there sooner simply remember Rod Hull!
My uncle went up on his roof to fix a wind-blown TV antenna.
He fell off and broke his leg in seven places. Cracked a few ribs too.
So, uh, be careful up there!
Neil – Kerry and I were thinking of you when the reports of the power going off were on the radio. Thinking of all those thousands of pissed off electricity customers ringing you and we laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.
It’s about time you did some work for a change.