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All done with mirrors
Today's job was the installation of a TV aerial in the study. I am glad to say that we finished the job apart from plastering round the socket in the wall. It was a day's work, and was fiddly and required thought but wasn't that difficult.
The tricky part was feeding the aerial cable under three metres of floorboards and up behind the skirting board without getting it tangled round the cooker cable. The HN had a long spring which he passed under the floorboards until, using a mirror and torch to see where the end lay, I was able to reach under the floorboards and grab it. I fixed the aerial to the spring with tape and he pulled the spring back and up behind the skirting board.
There is now a new TV aerial booster in the loft powered from the socket installed two days ago. This supplies the lounge and study aerials, and has slots for two more aerials. I could have done with a booster in my previous house because the reception was poor but didn't know such things existed.
I haven't a spare TV so the HN brought his portable one to check the socket in the study. He carried it round on his wheelbarrow; the reception was fine.
Thanks to the HN I now have a better understanding of the design and layout of my house.
Thought for today
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; but there are no certainties.
H L Mencken (1880 - 1956) American journalist
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