My TV stopped working. Strangely, the world didn’t stop turning.
I realised I was in trouble when I rang up the repair people and they put me through to a “special department” after I told them my TV didn’t have a plasma or LCD screen.
“You have a cathode ray tube set?” I was asked in the strange tone I hear when I tell people I don’t own a car.
“Yeah, I live in a tower block,” I told them. I’ve found that people accept, “I live in a tower block” as an explanation for just about anything.
the hole in my life where the tv isn't
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Kevin Nibbs came around yesterday to fix the boiler.
burnt out circuit board
It was the circuit board. You do not have to be an electrician to see there is something wrong with it.
It was only five years old.
The price of the new board was £150. That’s the same price as the motherboard in this computer. But the processing power to run a household boiler is minimal.
I suppose the much smaller numbers of boards for a boiler compared to a PC explains part of the price. But I still feel ripped off
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My parents gave me The Wire box set for my birthday.
I’d already seen most of the first two series. I’ve been watching one an evening since October, and it’s been great viewing. I’m just getting to the end of series 4.
The Wire is a powerful stuff. It’s overpowering when you watch all 60 episodes end-to-end. And depressing, the US looks completely dysfunctional. Perhaps the fact that TV shows like The Wire are being produced is reason for optimism.
I love the theme tune. I hadn’t realised that there’s a different version for each series until I watched them back-to-back.
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Would you want to know your future?
Question: “If you were to glimpse 137 seconds of your life, six months in the future, what would you see?”
- How would you react?
- What if everyone in the world had had a similar experience?
- What would they do?
- How could it have happened?
Flash Forward starts with such an event. Then follows on a group of characters as they try to answer these questions.
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