Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

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ukmaggie45

I_have_spoken wrote: »

While I'm in the loft, will be installing a new Freeview aerial for the TV in my study; too mean to pay for a 2nd box from Virgin media

Any handy hints on doing this? I'd really like to ditch Virgin media, though will have to sort out telephone too first...

Reason we went with Virgin when we moved in was simplicity as no TV aerial (it was unsafe and removed when we had the chimney re-pointed) and we think the telephone line is completely dead. But it's coming in at over £60 a month for TV (extra box in bedroom as I spend so much time in bed ), telephone and broadband which I think is a lot.

Only paying around £30 a month at the caravan for telephone and broadband, both with Zen Internet now (we changed from BT for the phone when Zen started doing phone and they're cheaper too for monthly rental and calls are timed by the second), who are really brilliant for customer service. Not need that very often, but when I have it's made such a difference to get to speak to someone in UK who doesn't treat you like an idiot when you're a bit slow on the uptake about re-configuring stuff etc, they just talk you through it and are really really friendly and helpful. (and no, I don't have shares in Zen! :rotfl: Just quite a longtime customer now and think they're great )

lostinrates

Media packages, the idea exhausts me! Too much torrential tv as is for us, we Are think about singing up with a streaming films option again over winter in weekend evenings sometimes, but radio and music with Internet and digibox and books....no idea how much it saves us a year...

Rummer

I watch far too much TV and spend to much time online. In fact I have asked hubby if we can go back to a basic package in the hope I will watch less. No idea when I fell into this trap as I used to fill my time with reading, friends and hobbies. We are going to make a concerted effort to do more productive things with our time.

choille

We ditched the Sky although we have to view TV through a Sky box due to the mountains! I don't watch much TV & there are enough terrestial channels for our 'needs'.

I think that if you have good supplier of services but it is expensive ie phone & Broadband - you have to phone them up & request your ISP number or wharever it's called as you want to shift provider & they knock a tenner off your monthly charge - I've done that twice - it's worth a phone call! Trust me...............It'll save you a min of £120 @ year.

Went to get used kitchen units & insulation rolls we had to collect. The kitchen doors are really naff - even painting them would not surfice as they have this weird 70's grip along the top of the drawers & cupboards. Paint would not hide this naffness.....................Hail & rain all day again.

Glad Mabel has perked a little Alfie.

I must shift the ewes down tomorrow.

I am awaiting sales ending on the bay.................Must go & check.............

lostinrates

Choille, can you add some trim? Over the seventies stuff? Or do you mean on the closed edge?

Give us a picture of them!

If they are really naff, how good an artist are you? Could you use those misty greys to paint a mural scent across them so know one even notices the cup boards and just sees the misty hills ( for example) on them?

I_have_spoken

Despite forecast of mist, it's a clear start here, with a heavy frost. So it's all over for the dahlias, once the sun comes around to the south I'll be lifting the tubers. I expect loads of peeps will be out walking on the hills after a slap-up lunch; there's always someone needs rescuing after tackling Ben Nevis wearing plimsolls.

Any handy hints on doing this?

Only that after the digital switch over, you may get away with an aerial in the loft as Freeview is now transmitted at full power.

I'm quite a distance from the Black Hill transmitter, but found I still got 100% signal and it's far easier/safer to work in loft than up a ladder on side of house!

Just to be neat, I ran the cable down some trunking in the corner of room which I painted to match emulsion so it's unobtrusive.

rhiwfield

The John Lewis ad is good, but like Itsme my first reaction was that the animals would be feasting on each other. DW and DS1 have a competition each year to see who spots the first Coca Cola Christmas is Coming Ad, she saw it yesterday and claimed the crown for this year!

We've got rid of all the halogen lights, mainly due to high leccy use, and replaced them with CFLs. Waiting for superfast broadband, due late 2014, then we'll review comms/media packages.

moneyistooshorttomention

Better_Days wrote: »

I did manage to upset the cleaner today. She comes for two hours a week and does clean well. Trouble is she would happily talk for most of the time and it wears me out. Recently I realised she wasn't staying for the whole of the two hours. Turns out that she was 'arriving' by the time shown by the clock in her car which is 10-15 mins slow, and then leaving about 5 minutes 'early' by our clock which shows the right time. Over the last few weeks I have been trying to get her to do the whole 2 hours but it has been a battle. She is mightily miffed with me now, and I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't turn up next week.

Now wondering just how easy it is to adjust car clocks to show the "wrong time" (cynical moi?;)). If she does show up again, then you could perhaps adjust your house clock to show the "wrong time" too perhaps...enough to even the balance out. Followed by being absent from whichever room she is in, so that she has no-one to waste time "talking to"..

I expect she has figured out how to make sure she gets paid for 2 hours, whilst only actually working for 1-1.5 hours. I've had similar stunts played on me before I got wise to them..

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I was laughing as in an ad breaking during the X factor last night, their announced the 'premier' of the J lewis Ad:rotfl: wonder if this will follow with every new ad.

Glad mabel was back to her old self yesterday Alfie...:T

I Think now that the overgrowth is dying back on the land we haven't even had the time ( or money) to sort out and fence... we will go in and start sorting the trees out.. As one thing I have learned, even with just the fire going for a few hours in the evening... how quick we can go through the wood..:eek:. So need to start prepping the wood for next year...

The bay is ticking over ok for me, as soon as I put things on BIN a lot of them are selling straight away, ok yes I know I am putting them on a bit cheap, but I am targeting the ' Christmas gift' buyers..and If I don't put these type of items on now, then they will be hard to shift for a while after Christmas...