TV trouble

[Daisy]

Clover and Wee Granny - I suppose none of us want to face the possibility that we or our spouses might have to manage alone, and I suppose we all have our own 'jobs'. It makes sense to sort things out while you can.

When my father died I was 18 and an only child. My mother had no idea how to run our finances other than housekeeping - in cash. She didn't know how to use a cheque book, do minor repairs in the house or even use a phone. She didn't understand about tax or insurance and to make it worse we were in the process of selling the shop so there was all the legal aspects of that to deal with as well a mortgage on our new home. I had to learn fast!!

My OH deals with the bills and finances, but he keeps detailed records and I know I could just pick it up and find everything if necessary. I think his biggest problem would be feeding himself if I wasn't around. I keep trying to get him to do some simple cooking, but a cheese sandwich at lunchtime seems to be the height of his culinary ambition at the moment.

[Mimi]

I have lost count of the amount of time I have mentioned to OH that he should make an attempt to get to grips with the actual running of our home and all it entails.
I suppose the habit of me getting on with almost everything comes from when I lived with dad from the age of 14 . I just took over the shopping etc in an effort to ease the pain of the death of my sister so when I got married I was already used to doing practically everything and the habit has stayed with me .

[Plantaholic]

As you know my DH died 5 years ago and he had left all the information I would need neatly filed but I did have to deal with banks, pensions, making a new will and setting up POA. Of course I did have SIL if I needed advice. He would have dealt with it all but I felt I wanted to do it, I think it helped me. I was always interested in how things worked, changing light bulbs, running a car, etc but of course I know I have a family to help out.

[mamma-mia]

My TV sometimes does silly things. I turn the TV, Sky box etc (everything connected to the TV) off at the plugs. Leave them off for a couple of minutes, back on and everything back to normal. It re-sets it all doing this.

[Gemini]

Yes, we find the same thing Mamma Mia.

[Glammanana]

We have to re-boot our TV quite often as it goes into millions of funny squares it happens always when you are enjoying a programme last night it was the last 15 of Call the Midwife so I was not pleased one bit.
Hubby persevered with it for a while and then found the trouble-shooting information which said some of the causes of the problem could be tall building or large trees near to the signal from the outdoor Infinity service WELL just who happens to have a large tree right in the pathway of the incoming wiring yes US.
If it is the problem I don't know but hubby is going to disconnect the box today and see if we have the same problem when just using Freeview system.

[Plantaholic]

We have very tall trees close to our house and used to have a lot of trouble with the picture, that is why we changed to SKY

[Daisy]

Mimi - it sounds as though it was very similar for both of us - you just get on with it, but it is a steep learning curve.

Plant - I think you were very wise dealing with things yourself. As you say, you could have had help, but I'm sure your dear OH would have been very proud of how you coped with everything. xx