Thursday 14th August 2014

Wednesday

The main highlight of the day, other than work of course, was the unpacking and testing of the new TV.

The planned evening walk was cancelled when dark clouds rolled over and dropped lots of wet stuff on St Maggies. We had come home, brewed a pot of coffee and polished off the short cakes before thinking about going out, and then well, you know, too late. Minutes later the rain came and so rain stopped play.

Lets sort out the TV then said Jools.

So, we unpacked it, and following the Ikea-like instructions put the stand together, we took the old TV down. Now, I should say that my old TV, a 28 inch Sony mega monster is a hunk of a TV that is nearly a three-man lift. We moved it onto the floor, and pushed it out of the way. I was able to lift the 42 inch replacement up on my own, we plugged in the power socket and then hunted for ten minutes looked for the power switch before realising the socket was not switched on.

We then went through the installation, which the TV itself took us through, and it became clear that this was not really a TV, more like a computer with a huge screen. I plugged Sky in, and programmed the port, and we had TV. Shame there was so little on it on what was to be the last night with Sky. In the end we found the radio on the i player.