In summer the cottage next door is let out to visitors. Each week there’s someone new. I see them coming and going and sometimes circumstances dictate that I get to meet them. Last week a man staying in the cottage came to the door to ask about the television signal in the village. It wasn’t very good, was it? This visitor spoke with a Welsh accent and limped.
Reception does vary a bit according to the weather, I said, but our signal seemed fairly strong at the moment. Theirs was fine at the beginning of the week, he said, but now the picture was breaking up on all freeview channels. This morning they’d had to abandon the Jeremy Kyle Show and watch Homes Under the Hammer on BBC1, which they weren’t keen on, to be honest, and now even BBC1 was unwatchable. It was very disappointing to come away on holiday and find the telly not working.
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