Boring holiday video

Back in the old days, people would expect you to sit through an evening's worth of holiday video footage. Nowadays thanks to cheap video editing software, you can reduce a week and a bit of holiday to eight minutes and 38 seconds...

New telly!

I had seriously considered replacing our elderly main television earlier in the year. In its day, it was a very, very good television and it's given us six good years. But, it's only standard definition and an annoying flickering* that could previously be cured by turning it on and off again now seems more likely to reappear.

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