No Television

[wildone]

<watching the box (unless the programmes have improved markedly in the seven or eight years since I got rid of my television!

henrya>

It is great to know that there are others who, like me have no television. I wonder if you suffer the same remark that I get when having said that I no longer have a television " Oh! Aren't you lucky". After 20 years of being without I still cannot work out where luck comes in. Anybody and everybody could get rid of their televisions if they so wanted.

Wildone

[Boddie]

Dont you miss the nature docmentaries. You seem to have a vast knowledge so I guess you spend some time on the net or best still outside.

Can I ask, do you use the radio alot?

[Boddie]

Actually, I should add that I am studying hard at the mo so the TV has not seen much action at all and I have to say I don't really miss it. I do like the coverage of big news events however. Lets you know just how lucky you are

[Helen]

I very rarely watch TV. I do (when I can remember) watch Question Time, Newsnight, etc., but I certainly don't go out of my way to watch them though. Having said that, there was a new channel launched last week called 4More, or More4! It has shown a couple of good documentaries so far, so I will keep my eye on what they are showing.

I do listen to Radio 4, it's on all day in this house, even all night sometimes. If I'm awake I like to listen to the Shipping Forecast, I find it soothing! (How's that for sad!) Although I'm pretty sure it's not so soothing for the people it's intended for!

I have lived many of my adult years abroad, and never really bothered with TV there either. I was always too busy doing other things.

These days, I spend a lot of my time on here!

[wildone]

Hi again Boddie

I read a lot and also listen to the radio almost non-stop. Radio 4 is my favourite, it keeps me up-to-date with what is going on in the world.

It is odd, I was speaking with a friend yesterday and she said that it is seeing the horrors of what is happening in the world that fix things in her mind. I on the other hand, tend to take the more personal view and try to put myself in the place of those to whom disaster has struck. To see pictures of it doesn't make it seem any more real to me. Different ways of dealing with the same thing I suppose.

Anyway best of luck with the studies. An employment related course I presume?

Ciao

Wildone

[Boddie]

Originally Posted by wildone

Anyway best of luck with the studies. An employment related course I presume?

Ciao

Wildone

Correct again, I am studying the surgical terms (so I have to know my itis's from my ectomy's) human anatomy from tissue layers of the abdomen, the location of the appendix, and its pupose, to the sphincters of the stomach, general surgery, so I have to know the difference between a McBurny or Pfannenstiel incision and surgical procedures from the Nissen Fundoplication to the procedure required for Choledocholithiasis. An A4 folder one inch thick has to be consumed verbatim. Being a medical position it is imperative that I know all of the contents word for word with none of my own interpretation. Luckily it is extremely interesting and many nights I have looked up at the clock to see it is 4.00 a.m. I get examined mid November, when I attend a 3 week intensive course with the first few hours examined on the content of what I am studying then more. A few late nights in between I guess.

Far better than seeing ropey old Gail on Corrie with some guy 2 foot taller than her that 'really' finds her attractive - guess someone has to?

p.s she's the one that looks likes Elliots friend that famously 'went home'

[wildone]

Originally Posted by Boddie

Far better than seeing ropey old Gail on Corrie with some guy 2 foot taller than her that 'really' finds her attractive - guess someone has to?

p.s she's the one that looks likes Elliots friend that famously 'went home'

Boddie. I could understand much of the medical/surgical stuff but this.. . As I have not watched any television since 1984 I have not an inkling of who this person/character is. Life is so much fuller since I ceased watching, although even when I did watch it was minimal. About the only thing I miss is cricket but I do have wall to wall TMS coverage when it is on. I must say that with plays etc. the pictures are far better on steam radio

Wildone

PS The great thing with radio is that you can listen and do something else with your eyes. W

[Pat]

I have a friend who hasn't had a television for some 20 odd years and she always tells me that if you have a garden and a library that is all you need.

[wildone]

Pat

I now have no garden but I certainly agree with the library. Also going into the Great Outdoors when the weather permits. This site has greatly added to my interests and knowledge. I nowadays would be hard pushed to find time to watch TV. Much more useful to my mind is to watch bird behaviour and the goings on of other wild creatures.

Ciao

Wildone

[Boddie]

Originally Posted by wildone

Boddie. I could understand much of the medical/surgical stuff

You are a better man than I am then, Kimosabi

[wildone]

I hope not. Strictly female here.

[Boddie]

Whoops, should have known by the humour

[Tinkerbell]

Many thanks for the offer of some photos of Ferry Meadows, Wildone - I would be very interested since it's getting on for 7/8 years since we were last there. The little train proved very popular then, and the visitor centre was an excellent stop off point, after a day walking hither and thither along the river bank to the lock.

And Helen - Thanks for the memory. I'm quite long in the tooth now, but as a little girl at my Nana's I would listen to the Shipping Forecast too. Dogger, Fitzroy, Viking, Utsire, Biscay, Lundy, Humber and Dover just some of the exotic locations where gales might be whipping up. My imagination worked overtime thinking about the vessels out there fishing, transporting etc. I hoped that listening to the forecast maybe gave some comfort to them too - one of those British traditions. (Nana had a teapot stand made from a tile, which had the areas mapped out so I could follow progress as I listened).

[nightshade]

television is like a book you must be selective and know when to put it down
having said that my new one connects to my computer and will give a 32"
monitor awsome

[nightshade]

the shipping forecast was alwas one of my favourites

[wildone]

Originally Posted by nightshade

television is like a book you must be selective and know when to put it down
having said that my new one connects to my computer and will give a 32"
monitor awsome

With me it was not knowing when to put it down but rather when if ever to pick it up. I have no trouble with books, just go on to the end.

Quote<the shipping forecast was alwas one of my favourites>endquote

but surely that is on radio, and I get plenty of that if I'm not reading. Even when I am logged on to WAB

[Jo Pedder]

I'm afraid I'm a reforming glued to the tele person. Although I am much better now i've stopped commuting 4 hours a day - I used to get home about 8 eat dinner infront of the tele, get caught by some rubbish at 9 then bed at 9.30. Sad life!

live for the the weekends though - had a great time ambling around Wendover woods last weekend, which has great veiws over autumnal wooded valleys of the chilterns. Unfortunatly as it is so good, it's far too popular and the frest was full of human and dog noises, rather than birds! can't have every thing.

[Helen]

That's where I am very fortunate indeed Jo, I don't need to go outside of my "garden" to be in the woods here in the Chilterns!

Did you see any firecrests in Wendover Woods?