Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I'm glad you are home safe Lydia and I'm sorry this topic is so personal for you.

Heading in a more theoretical direction...

Thanks michaels and sss555s. Yes, it's personal for me, but I'm not letting that stop me discussing such things, and I don't want it to make any difference to other people discussing road traffic accidents (general or particular) either. This is the NPT - it's not like anyone's going to say anything disrespectful or flippant.

zagubov

sss555s wrote: »

Unless you have upgraded your aerial to a digital aerial in the last 5-10 years you probably wont get all the channels but a retune will get you up to date as much as possible.

sss555s -is yours one of the earlier analogue switch-off areas(Border TV)? And for the sake of those of us who have lived north and south of then border, do they run different adverts/PP broadcasts/news items on different sides of the border? I gather they also cover the IoM which isn't in the UK/EU/ How does it all work? :question:

sss555s

zagubov wrote: »

sss555s -is yours one of the earlier analogue switch-off areas(Border TV)? And for the sake of those of us who have lived north and south of then border, do they run different adverts/PP broadcasts/news items on different sides of the border? I gather they also cover the IoM which isn't in the UK/EU/ How does it all work? :question:

Yes i was one of the first lot to "switch over" Analogue was swithed off so long ago i don't hardly remember it. That says more about me than Analogue

Basically you either need a "newish" TV with digital built in or a set top (digital) box if your TV is a bit older.

The set top box plugs into your TV by scart or HDMI, has it's own remote and accessed by the AV button on your TV remote. It's just another device just like using a DVD or VCR, no drama at all really.

The point i was making to PN is that "digital" has a wider band than analogue which means the old analogue aerials will not pick up all the digital channels. New aerials are pretty cheap though and the worst part is changing it if your aerial is mounted high up on the roof.

zagubov

Lydia- I'm glad you're home safe. I've done many a London-Glasgow marathon drive and the rain's like a biblical plague/disaster movie sometimes.
You can barely see anything ahead at all at night when that happens. Specially when you get on the 200-mile unlit run from the Manchester Ship Canal to the souther burbs. Having wipers hardly seems to help at all.

PasturesNew

I always used to wonder why 'idiots' overtook me in poor weather on motorways .... until one day I was driving my boss' top of the range Mercedes - and it's a whole different ballgame driving one of those. Instead of being stuck in the inside lane unable to see a thing, there's something special about the shape/design and the rain simply didn't stick to the windscreen - the wipers were wiping it away and I could see perfectly down the road. It was really weird.... but I do now know that posh people in posh cars really CAN see where they're going in poor weather. I was passing lots of 'slow idiots' that day, but I knew they couldn't see and a whole new world of posh stuff was opened up to me.

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

Unless you have upgraded your aerial to a digital aerial in the last 5-10 years you probably wont get all the channels but a retune will get you up to date as much as possible.

Really? I think my parents get all the channels and their aerial is in excess of ten years old ...because they certainly haven't changed it.


I have no idea if I have all the channels or how old my arial is.

edit: I retuned recently and got a food channel that I haven't watched and I think I saw a home channel. I retune every now and then.

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

Hey NDG

Because of your input today i have been looking at beds.

My next bed will be a super king size!

The one on holiday was 7ft by 7ft by me reckoning and i always like the massive beds on holiday so the best i can do without going "overboard" is a super king size! It will fit in fine. :beer:

something I have noticed happens in marriage is that people want bigger beds. DH used to say he always wanted to sleep in a single bed with me, which I quickly scaled up to a 4ft6 bed. Then we spomehow inherited a five foot bed, and it made life more comfortable with cats and dogs on it, now we only share the bed with the cats and yet a six foot bed looks really good. I wonder if this trend goes on long enough if its why some plder couples end up in twin beds.

PasturesNew

I should say something about the aerial... it's not my TV, it's not my aerial. It's not something I would be allowed to fiddle with, nor would I have access to wherever the aerial is. The TV is here, I turn it on ... I get what I'm given.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks michaels and sss555s. Yes, it's personal for me, but I'm not letting that stop me discussing such things, and I don't want it to make any difference to other people discussing road traffic accidents (general or particular) either. This is the NPT - it's not like anyone's going to say anything disrespectful or flippant.

Much love to you Lydia. You are such a special woman.

(bt when I read that I was thinking ...should I now say somehting flippant?)


Re safety......when riding ''properly'' I insist people where hats and gloves and proper boots. Its a golden rule for a reason. But we quite often put my friends toddler up ..much like I did Lydias kids....I hold the pony and one leg of the child and we never go into a ''dangerous situation'' (caveat: horses are unpredicatable animals and one should always be alert). I myself have often ridden with out a hat (and competed in classes where hard hats are not worn) and I have noticed that sometimes I feel I concentrate better without a hat (but with gloves). HOWEVER....I still think its really stupid and hypocritically you'd never hear me sactioning it on the yard at all. And I accept its hypocritical. I know how much head problems, albeit not injury, can change a life so I'm a fool several times over.

lostinrates

re driving in the awful weather: the first time I drove into italy the weather was shocking and people were using words like ''the worst seen for xxxx years''. This came after driving through much of france at not even 20 miles an hour because of fog so thick I couldn't see the end of the bonnet of my small car (in the end we found a hotel and went inside for a kip).

The camber on the motor way in italy on the otherside of mont blanc was not allowing water to drain off very quickly, and the rain was concelaing pot holes ON THE FR****NG MOTORWAY and Italians were driving like loons, bashing into each other and seeming to enjoy it. I was petrified, and arrived in Milan with knuckles white and my fingers locked closed around the wheel. If it hadn't meant going in the car I would have gone straight home I think. Instead I avoided the car for about three weeks.