Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

donny-gal

Very interesting DS this time I am with Norfolk Line they were the cheapest! Remember Yorkshire = tight!
DG

droopsnout

Hey, me, too, remember! And we used Norfolk in February.

gfplux

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Wahey! Just seen it on Sky News! (whilst waiting to see the story about the Obama's dog which they've been promising for two hours....:mad:)

I have given up on sky news. You either get the same news repeated every 5 minutes or a promise of a story that never arrives.
I now watch BBC News 24. They are much better at it than Sky.

gfplux

droopsnout wrote: »

Monday's BBC Five Live Breakfast Programme came partly from Lourdes, and the three-hour programme was followed by a one-hour phone-in about Lourdes and all its ramifications.

I have on my lappy an edited version of the Breakfast programme (I've edited out anything non-Lourdes), and a full recording of the phone-in. If anyone would like to listen to them, I will try to make the recordings available, though the files are far too big to email.

I am a podcast addict. Have you listened to the BBC podcasts. They so many. Such as The Today interviews, Nick Campbell phone in, Money Box etc etc

droopsnout

Yep. I listen to Five Live all the time, so rarely need podcasts, but they are certainly extremely useful. Pity we can't use iPlayer, eh?

donny-gal

There must be a way DS as there is an advert out here to get a UK ISP address, how legal unsure, but my friend tells me she gets them and is on Telefonica BB.
DG

seven-day-weekend

gfplux wrote: »

I have given up on sky news. You either get the same news repeated every 5 minutes or a promise of a story that never arrives.
I now watch BBC News 24. They are much better at it than Sky.

Agree with you about Sky News. However, with our little set-up we don't have a lot of choice. We only get a few English Channels (Sky News, BBC World, which doesn't have much UK news, CNN and CNBC Business. Oh and Euro News). So you see if we want UK news its Sky or nothing!

We could get more if we forked out and got a bigger dish, but we really have nowhere to put one (1.5m diameter) and don't feel inclined to spend that amount of money anyway.

So we'll have to put up with Sky and BBC World!

droopsnout

donny-gal wrote:

There must be a way DS as there is an advert out here to get a UK ISP address, how legal unsure, but my friend tells me she gets them and is on Telefonica BB.

You are right. There are ways of doing it. A friend of mine watches BBC TV regularly. He pays a fiver a month to someone or other and I think top and bottom of it is that it acts as a proxy server, fooling the Beeb's system into thinking his pooter is in the UK. There are free proxy servers available, but I don't fully understand it.

At one time, I used to log on to my son's server and fool UK sites that way, but it slowed down the internet connection so much as to be almost unusable, and it would barely carry a radio programme without frequent buffering, so no chance of doing it with video.

No doubt someone on the techy forum could advise on this. I might see this friend of mine over the weekend and get more details.

Merrywidow

I was watching a program on i player last night and saw that you can email it!? I am no techie and don't know any, but I am going to try and send one and see what happens. DS - you will be the lucky one if it works...nothing tried etc......

Merrywidow

Hi Donny-Gal - guess you will be getting ready for off - all those million of last minute things to do. Paper today say that the French fishermen may try the same upheaval in 10 days time - so you are safe for now.:j
Bon Voyage.