Lofty thoughts

As mentioned yesterday, the Gorse Fox had an appointment with the loft space. Urban-cub had returned from her outing and we started to clear space. The reader should be aware that this is no traditional loft, but rather the space between the eaves and the bedroom walls - thus it it deep but not high, has but small areas boarded, and the rafters slope at 45 degrees to catch unsuspecting heads when you are crawling round on all fours.

After stirring all sorts of dust, suffievient space was clear to allow access to the co-ax from the roof, and also provide crawl-ways to the significant corners where new co-ax needed to run. Measurement were taken and a hole drilled - spot on - to allow the first of the new cables to be dropped to the lounge. That was the easy bit.

We then had to shift a number of further items to gain further access to the smaller eaves and pass cable through small dusty apertures. Duct tape and a long piece of wood played a significant role in dragging the cable through. Eventually everything was lined-up and the final hole drilled. The cable dropped down and U-c now has a usable TV signal. 

It was at this point we discovered that though she may have a good signal - she didn't have a usable Freeview box (they were both giving trouble). This meant a trip to Currys - who were out of stock except for an expensive one, Tesco - who only seemed to have deals that incorporated Setanta, and Comet - who had a good selection and came up with the goods. Freeview DTV signals are now succesfully plugged in to both of the target TVs, they're tuned and running.