Not mentioning the T word at all

paidinchickens

Morning ladies

A quick flick through the local paper (while in shop getting whoopsies) revealed ..........

There are no Jumble sales today :eek::eek:

What am I going to do? every week I take Aunt C to which ever local jumble is on, we are getting quite good at knowing where all the village halls are we must be professional jumblers now as we no longer need satnav :rotfl:

There will be no sharpening of elbows and dirty looks from people as they try to push in and no coming home saying "I bought it because it was only 20p" Oh how I have bought some tat in my time :rotfl::rotfl: but it all goes to the local charity to weigh in for rags if its no good

Will have to get the Kenwood out and mess the kitchen up then

PIC x

mmmsnow

Argh, TV Licensing! I cancelled my licence in November 2006 (there was never anything on!) and they seemed fine with it. I moved in with my OH in early 2007 and discovered he had the full Sky package :eek: but never watched it. I bit my MS-tongue for a while but, in the end, he cancelled it. A few months later I convinced him to cancel the TV License as well. We only use the TV to play games on the Xbox and to watch pre-recorded films and TV shows. Anything else I want to watch, I watch on iPlayer or 4OD.

Anyway, we cancelled the TV licence and sent a letter stating we would not be using the TV for viewing broadcast television. All seemed fine then one night, over a year later, someone rings my buzzer at 8pm. "We're looking for a Mrs Mansfield," comes the voice. I have no idea who that is so I tell them they have the wrong flat. "Can we come up anyway?" I buzzed them in, thinking it might be one of the other people in the block that they want (it was two women and I assumed, at 8pm that they were visiting a friend and got the buzzer number wrong). A few minutes later, these two turn up at the door and introduce themselves as TV Licensing! I told them I had a TV (well, I had to - OH was playing Xbox noisily on it, just in view) but we didn't use it to watch broadcast TV. In the end, I had them in and showed them that the TV wasn't connected to anything.

They tried to tell me some lies about why they didn't use the right name when they first called (someone must have bought a TV, given the name "Mansfield" and put our address down - aye right!). I know I probably shouldn't have let them in but they made me feel like a criminal, even though I had done nothing wrong. We haven't had a peep out of TVL since so maybe having them in satisfied them. It's also strengthened my resolve to never again pay the TV tax - I can live happily without it.

In fact, I'm becoming one of those people who hates going places where there's a TV on. One of my friends always has it going in the background when you go round her house (with no-one watching it) and it drives me nuts!

Hobsons_Choice

The number of people I know who have the TV on in the background when you're visiting....!
I think it's the height of bad manners meself (and my son and OH do it)!!

VJsmum

I don't like it either - my Mum and Dad used to do it and dad still does. A lot of people do it and don't even consider it to be bad manners. My OH especially hates it (but then he is turning into Victor Meldrew )

Oh dear - I've just been shopping in Kemps wool shop - I blame Mardatha for telling me about it.

Christmas cake making this weekend, and ebaying stuff i think (wonder where the camera is) - i really better get my tush into gear and do something.

S'laters

paidinchickens

Sorry for starting the TV Licence debate:o

But I am so glad a lot of you don't have one and given up the old goggle box as in RL I think we are classed as strange :rotfl::rotfl:

We have a couple who are friends who we visit and the wife sits on her laptop on facebook no matter who is there :eek: she pops her head up occasionally to join the chatter but it is almost like she is an addict.

Personally I think FB is handy for keeping in touch and finding old friends but some people do spend hours on it. F*rmville ..... what's all that about

PIC x

mmmsnow

I'm now used to the weird look you get when you tell someone you don't have a TV (usually following the question, "Did you see The X Factor/Strictly/Eastenders last night?"). One woman even went as far as to ask, "So what do you do at night?" At that point, my mind went blank so I ended up muttering, "You know, normal stuff."

It's nice to see there are others out there who don't see TV as a necessity

I'm thinking of making a Stollen for Christmas this year. The Christmas cake is a little too heavy for me and my OH but Stollen is perfect. This will be the first time I've made it and I've had a look on-line for recipes - anyone got a tried and tested one they can recommend?

mmmsnow

Justamum wrote: »

BIB - I'm sure I read somewhere that these monitoring devices are all a myth to scare people. They go purely on a database of every address in the country, and just target those addresses which don't have licences. That's all they need. The assumption is that everybody has a tv these days.

Sorry, just saw this and had to say, I have a PhD in Physics and there is NO WAY they can monitor if you are "receiving signals". Well done for mythbusting!

I hate the way the BBC have brainwashed sensible people into believing in a technology that doesn't exist.

paidinchickens

mmmsnow wrote: »

Sorry, just saw this and had to say, I have a PhD in Physics and there is NO WAY they can monitor if you are "receiving signals". Well done for mythbusting!

I hate the way the BBC have brainwashed sensible people into believing in a technology that doesn't exist.

even if they did they would have to declare what equipment they use and how it worked etc to the courts before they could use it as evidence against you.

rising_from_the_ashes

I'm afraid I'm someone who has the TV on in the background all the time (but I do turn it off when visitors come round!).

I've always done it and TBH I hate being in the house by myself with no noise (I find it a bit creepy).


Well, I'm frozen ..... was lovely earlier & opened all the windows but didn't notice the temp dropping (might also have something to do with being cuddled up on the sofa with the dog!) and the house is now like a freezer:( brrrrrrr.

I seem to have been busy all day but not achieved a lot ... I hate days like that!

notjustlaura

Hobsons_Choice wrote: »

The number of people I know who have the TV on in the background when you're visiting....!
I think it's the height of bad manners meself (and my son and OH do it)!!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one to think it's rude! I won't even use the phone if the TVs on although I find quiet background music to be OK.