A useful sort of day. We still hadn't managed to get the TV-VCR connection working, and I spotted on DigiGuide that
Carry on up the Khyber was showing on 4 (the new Channel 4 channel, um, 4...) this evening...
<tangent> The film is a product of its time,
appallingly sexist, racist, full of dreadful stereotypes and absolutely non-PC: it would never be made today, thank gawd. It's also side-slappingly funny and has me in stitches every time. Such terrible, terrible jokes. Ghastly puns. Horrible one-liners. Wonderful stuff! I know, I know, most reprehensible of me. I can't say I care, I'm allowed to be incorrect on occasion. It's quintessential British humour, bawdy, crude and takes the piss out of itself something
awful. And Kenneth Williams is
excellent. Love it. </tangent>
ANYway, I wanted to tape it (while we watched some more
Trigun, but that's incidental), so we had another go at fiddling with the cables. Hm. That's probably an offence, somewhere... It didn't work, although we did establish there was nothing wrong with any of the leads or the equipment. So we rang TeleWest.
As it happened, we had to
reprogramme the VCR. Huh? I don't remember having to programme it in the first place... So, with Ken on the floor with VCR remote and instruction book, me at the desk with phone to ear relaying instructions, and TeleWest techie on the other end of the line trying to make sense of my descriptions of what we actually have here, we finally got the whole thing working (not exactly as the techie said it should, but what the hell, I can video again, that's all I care.)
Thank you, unnamed TeleWest techie with the interesting Northern accent!
The college didn't ring, so I rang back: had a chat with the deputy head, who was very helpful. Apparently the boy
doesn't go to BEC, which was a surprise as Ken was sure he did. However, the d.h. did say we shouldn't have to put up with this harassment, and we should complain once we find out where the boy
does go to school. [sigh] More investigation next week...
Dreams wordage now at 24,436, still behind but catching up.
Off to make dinner. Then we're out to set off Kai's fireworks; tonight, as they say it's going to rain all weekend. We don't usually buy them, but Tesco was selling boxes on BOGOF, so we grabbed a couple of the cheapest. Me, I like pretty fizz-bangs - as long as I don't have to put up with them every night for bloody months.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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