Firmly In The “Slow News Day” Category
I made a start on my declutter project today and it felt GOOD.
I even glued our filing cabinet back together and sorted out some long-since-stuffed-behind paperwork. I can now tell you how much we paid for electricity in November 2004, if you really wanted to know. Which I suspect you don’t, so I shall refrain.
It’s a quiet kind of weekend. Talented Hubby is off work. I got a rare sleep-in this morning which was lovely. I nuked some leftover Brocciflower Bake for lunch (remind me to give you the recipe sometime). We watched Surf’s Up with the kids this afternoon (half the fun of watching these kids’ animated films is guessing who does the voices - we purposely avoid looking at the box) and we’re about to watch Premonition with Sandra Bullock once the kiddos are in bed.
Speaking of movies - we travelled to the south-east of my state over last weekend, and stayed with relatives who have Foxtel (cable for you American folk). How do all you guys who have all those channels cope? The lifestyle programs! The shows free-to-air TV just doesn’t get down here! Every time I happen to come across some of these awesome shows I want to cry and beg Hubs to have it installed, but then I remember about half the time we were visiting with our family we couldn’t decide what to watch. The other half of the time though - yay for Pay TV. On our last visit down we calculated what it would cost us to get a package comprising of all the channels each of us would enjoy, and it was something like $80 per month. Would extra channels be worth $20 per week to us? Why no, they would not, LOL.
In Australia, we have just five basic channels. Channels 7, 9 and 10, plus the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company that is, and it gets a hefty chunk of its programming from the BBC), and SBS (foreign language channel, but it also has things like Top Gear and Mythbusters, which the guys in our family happen to adore). With the digital television roll in, we have a few ‘parallel channels’ but at least some of the time they run the same programs as the regular version. And you need a set-top box or an inbuilt digital tuner in the newer TVs for these extra channels to kick in. Which we don’t have…yet.
I know. The humanity.
Back to the television…
Cheers,
Lizzie
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Just an Aussie mother to three, wife to one, special needs advocate, sometimes crafter, always procrastinator and awesome baker. Well maybe not bread. Bread alludes me.
Set top boxes are relatively cheap and easy to set up, a high definition one costs more, but I’ve got an SD one (much cheaper) and it works just fine. I now get ABC2 and the parallel channel 10, or maybe it’s 7, I don’t watch much TV anyway.
We probably would have been leaning toward that (a separate set top box) soon ourselves but our main TV is on the blink and our other one is a second hand one which works fine but is darker on the right hand side of the screen, LOL. We have the money saved for the big-screen so while we’re at it we’ll look at one with the inbuilt HD tuner. We *could* spend far less on a replacement TV (or even none at all, I guess) but this will be the first thing we’ve bought for ourselves in years and we’ll be paying cash.
Cheers,
Lizzie