Numbnuts...so happy you got your garage, but 450 yards? If you got your Brompton as I suggested you could ride over there! My neighbor who helped with my sheepherders wagon will ride a a bike or use his electric scooter to visit me at maybe 200 yards.
About the TV..in '92 Springsteen came out with a song "57 channels and there is nothing on". Now of course many more channels.
It was supposedly -4.5 C this morning but as we are 300 ft above the river it's usually a little warmer here and I see no frost. Will be 16.7C this afternoon. And the sky is crystal clear as the rain the other night washed away the smoke.
Perhaps after my ride I will begin affixing rectangles of pseudo Persian carpet to the 14 steps going from the basement to the main floor. The aged canine's devil toes slip on the oak steps from time to time and perhaps this will help.
Hope you feel better, Dave7.