My ex-mate Rupe: Yes, alas and alack, my mate Rupe and I have parted company after 20-odd years together. They were happy times, none happier than when he sent me - free of charge(!) - a satellite dish and a 'magical-do-flicker-recording-thingie' that even I could work. Also, he provided some terrific programmes like The Wire and 'Farx Noos' with all those blonde ladies and their fright-white teeth. And, yes, I know that 'Farx Noos' is to the Right of the political spectrum but it still has a long way to go before it catches up with me! Even so, my 'financial advisor', aka: the 'Memsahib', who does the books, so to speak, informed me the other day that we were paying Rupe £67 a month! I nearly swallowed the glass of very cheap red wine I was drinking at the time because, of course, I can only afford cheap red wine - and now I know why! I then checked the TV schedules and realised that 90% of what I watch on TV is available on Freeserve and that includes Sky News which, as I have mentioned before, I have on constantly but with the sound off! So, sorry, Rupe, don't think it hasn't been fun - but it's been expensive fun!
More rumbles later . . .