Today...what have you been up to? [4]

[Angie]

Ha ha of course you do it's the principle of the thing irrespective whether you use it or not. See I'm all about the tech it has to be fast and it has to work and if it doesn't I don't like it and get very mad as I don't have the patience! Things generally don't work when I need them too! We had a lot of trouble with sky and wifi and it drove us bonkers. We've moved on to sky Q now because we record loads of stuff. But I'm with you, I want downloads and programmes and all the package has to offer if it doesn't work or goes slow it drives me insane. We had issues before Christmas with downloads and updates then John discovered something about the boxes going into sleep mode and updating in the middle of the night which kind of rectified some of the problems we were having and then he had to sort the wifi because I think the signal strength was weak.

With regards to yours have you got an old box is that why the settings don't show? I know how much a faff it can be trying to sort stuff although I must confess I just get John to do it. When it comes to the TV you just want to sit and chill not start running round rooms trying to play record and watch all at the same time! It should be a simple plug and play no faff no fuss just plug and go! Oooh I could write my own advert if I carry on like this!

 

[Joan]

Well I know the Sky+HD box in the living room was a new one just over a couple of years ago and had the WPS button on the front of the box and that was easy to set up but the Sky+HD box connected to the bedroom telly doesn't have that button and I'm finding it hard trying to find the settings to even set it up manually with a password, the box doesn't have any IP addresses either. It does show the Wi-Fi light on the front although it's not lit.

I know when the living room was being set up after we got the new telly and HD box we had to stop having it connect to the phone line, it always used to before when we just had a Sky+ box, the white one, when putting the plug in the HD box it knocked out the telephone line so we couldn't use the phone so in the end the engineer sorted it out with Sky that the living room was exempt from having the phone line connected.

It's funny that the bedroom set up was never connected to the phone line for years until Sky suddenly realised it wasn't and needed to be. They sent an engineer out who put a new line in from the line box to the Sky box and there where no problems. Mind you at the time all we had in the bedroom was an old 14" portable telly and the old standard sky box. Then the +HD box was put in there until we managed to buy a new telly that was bigger and an LED HD.

We'd been looking at the Q boxes but we can't afford one of those and we can't add anything else to get one free, we don't want Sky Sports or Sky Movies. I know I love all the technology these days but it can be very frustrating when it doesn't do what I want it to.

 

[A Guy]

I have this...

A Guy

 

[Angie]

I'll catch up with you guys tomorrow just got back from Grease the musical. [emoji16]

 

[A Guy]

What's the word?

A Guy

 

[Joan]

Nice one Bill, I used to have indoor antennas when we were on analogue in the bedroom. The aerials only went into the living room but of course then analogue was turned off and we had Sky connected, that was in the early 2000s I think it was 2002 or 3. It's only in the last couple of years we've got rid of the old CRT TVs and got new HD LED ones.

The old analogue cables are still there, they come from the chimney pot on the roof through the loft and down through a cupboard then through the wall into the living room at the back of the TV. One of the aerials was for Welsh TV and that's been blown off, the other was for English TV but is a bit twisted but still hanging on. The Sky dish is on the gable end wall, the bedroom is the other side of the wall.

 

[Joan]

OK having fun here, the post above this was my reply to Bills aerial picture and I did it yesterday, I was sure I'd clicked post reply but I'd just arrived here and saw a post from Angie and one from Bill but not mine. I scrolled down to do another and lo and behold there is my post faded out still sitting in the quick reply box so I just hit the reply button, hee hee what a numpty.

 

[A Guy]

Aged like fine wine...

A Guy

 

[Angie]

Lol what are you like, we are currently drawing characters at the table at the minute. Then making Sunday dinner and then we will be enjoying a piece of marble cake topped with Terrys chocolate orange. Han can't keep away first she asked for a piece and now she has asked to lick it. If I'm not careful I'll come back to find her sticking her fingers in it! [emoji23]

 

[Joan]

We've had our Sunday dinner, it's the only day of the week we have dinner at lunchtime, well I serve it at about 2pm, in the week I serve about 6.15pm but Saturday you do your own thing, if you want to eat you do itself.

I love the sound of the marble cake especially the Terrys chocolate orange part.

 

[Angie]

My fridge smells very choclatey it is nice even if I do say so myself. The pork joint has gone in but guess who's now making it ....me because Mr Sneezy is banned from the kitchen. So Mothers days is so about me...yeah because it's just another normal day when I get to do stuff lol. Hope you've had a nice day Joan.

 

[A Guy]

Happy Mother's Day ladies

A Guy

 

[Joan]

Thank you Bill they're gorgeous I've got some lemon and red spray carnations, I love them as they last so much longer than other flowers. We'd seen the advert on telly that Lidl's were selling bunches of in tight bud daffodils but of course our Lidl's didn't have any so I got the carnations.

 

[Joan]

My fridge smells very choclatey it is nice even if I do say so myself. The pork joint has gone in but guess who's now making it ....me because Mr Sneezy is banned from the kitchen. So Mothers days is so about me...yeah because it's just another normal day when I get to do stuff lol. Hope you've had a nice day Joan.

It was like any other Sunday here Angie just me and John. My eldest son phoned me and my other one phoned Monday, he couldn't get through when he'd tried on Sunday. Apart from Kelly, my lot are not into celebrations, I probably wouldn't hear from the boys if it wasn't for Kelly reminding them just before the event, then I'll get a phone call from them both.

 

[Angie]

That's nice that you got some flowers and that the kids rang you, I got two cards from Han, one hand made and the other via Moonpig, she said she didn't get me a present because she hasn't had the chance to go out for one but she did paint a wooden jewellery box for me and added some diamontes to it. It's a lovely gift and we had a great day even though I was the one looking after everybody!

This is last piece of the marble cake I made....

John seemed to think that I put too much Terry's Chocolate Orange on the top only because he didn't wait long enough for it to soften out of the fridge before he tried cutting it. Personally I don't think you can ever put too much chocolate on anything!

Joan have you been watching Australian Masterchef again? I've been watching snippets of it again and then I watched the final the other day.

 

[Joan]

Oh was it an old one Angie? The new ones aren't usually till later in the year, what channel was it on? I usually watch it on W when it's on, I know they show it on another channel, not sure which one, but I'm sure they're repeats, hope I'm right or I'll be cross I've missed it.

 

[Angie]

It's on 196 on sky I think it's the home channel nut I'll check for you. I've been seeing little bits of it over the last few weeks but the final was on the other day. If I say they had to make a 7 piece shard dessert does that ring any bells for you?

 

[Angie]

But not nut lol this phone drives me mad on auto correct!

 

[Joan]

Doesn't ring a bell offhand but Elena Duggan won it with Matt Sinclair runner up, that was season 8. I've seen a mention of season 9 but a date for that hasn't been set yet.

 

[Angie]

Just checked my Sky Joan and you're good as it said season 6. [emoji16]