Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

@Reynard Any chance of hopping on your bike and taking a flask if coffee to a mate of mine stuck in floods on the A140 near Diss, please.. He's been there for 3 hours now! 🚛

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Wonders if the Freeview signal coding has changed. My 13 year old Freesat/Freeview combi TV stopped receiving ITV1HD on Freesat due to change in the transmitted signal that Panasonic failed to issue an update for, then more recently BBC1HD started to break up. Bought a Freesat receiver. Now on Freeview some channels are breaking up. The signal from the aerial goes into a multi way booster and for example the far newer TV in the kitchen works fine. The aerial lead to the combi TV is only 0.5m long and I have now tried three different ones without success. Maybe time for a new TV.

I know my reception can be a little sketchy when there are extreme atmospheric conditions and HD used to be the first to go. Sometimes a retune will work but more often it needs a return to more normal weather. This can require patience.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It’s gone dark

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It’s gone dark

Wait till Desombre kicks in.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

@Reynard Any chance of hopping on your bike and taking a flask if coffee to a mate of mine stuck in floods on the A140 near Diss, please.. He's been there for 3 hours now! 🚛

Not allowed across county borders after dark.

 

[Reynard]

@Reynard Any chance of hopping on your bike and taking a flask if coffee to a mate of mine stuck in floods on the A140 near Diss, please.. He's been there for 3 hours now! 🚛

Diss is 45 miles away!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A fox 🦊 has just gone past kitchen window

 

[PeteXXX]

Diss is 45 miles away!

Coffee'll be cold by the time you get there.. Thanks anyway 😂

 

[Mike_P]

I know my reception can be a little sketchy when there are extreme atmospheric conditions and HD used to be the first to go. Sometimes a retune will work but more often it needs a return to more normal weather. This can require patience.

Its some SD channels that are breaking up on Freeview on the combi but are perfectly fine after travelling a good few metres to the kitchen tv . Possibly ones at the weaker end of the freeview signals so thinking maybe the freeview tuner is failing in the combi. Still after 13 years its lasted well. Seems Panasonic make a similar combi set today but oddly John Lewis only list it as Freeview - have raised a query with them as their automatic 5 year free warranty is attractive.

 

[classic33]

For you, that's a deficit.

I forgot the one* down behind the seat I'm sat on.

*It's a DIY job.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I forgot the one* down behind the seat I'm sat on.

*It's a DIY job.

There are so many questions I'm not going to ask..

 

[classic33]

The local chemist has got Wilkinson Sword DE razor blades back in stock.

Once bought a box of them at 5p a pack(10 per pack, 250 packs in the box) for a relative who used them.
Wonder how many he has left now.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The local chemist has got Wilkinson Sword DE razor blades back in stock.

And is it the best a man can get?

 

[classic33]

And is it the best a man can get?

Nah, that'd be Gillette

 

[classic33]

Coffee'll be cold by the time you get there.. Thanks anyway 😂

You saying her flask isn't up to the job in hand!