Freeview Problems Argh ...

We're now receiving Freeview.

After so many long years of analogue TV, finally my folks decided to bite the bullet and pay for a digital signal box. At the same time, in their infinite widsom, they decided to move the TV to the second living room, where the aerial coax cable doesn't go.

No worries, I hear them say. We'll buy a set-top aerial.

Well, we've been having problems.

Firstly, the room we've moved into is a signal dead spot. We need the outside aerial feed anyway, which means Dad has to drill the hole in the wall to feed the coax through far sooner than he'd wanted. This means the internal aerial we bought turned out to be useless.

Next, we've got no Channel Five reception whatsoever. Guess what? It isn't due to the Winter Hill transmitter. No, the problem is our aerial, which isn't wideband.

So we'll need to upgrade the damn thing anyway, even if we went back to analogue. Argh. :(

Stand By Your Vamp - A Tribute to Ghouls Everywhere

Stand By Your Vamp - A Tribute to Ghouls Everywhere

(sung to the tune of "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette)

- For Chuck, Will, Matt, Justin, Philippe and everyone else I've missed out ... you know who you are.

Sometimes its hard to be a Renfield
Giving all your love to just one vamp
You'll have bad nights
And he'll have good nights
Doing things that you don't understand

But if you love him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just a vamp

Stand by your vamp
Give him your veins to sate him
And something warm to come to
When blood is hard to come by

Stand by your vamp
Don't bite the wrist that feeds you
No matter how debased and camp
Stand by your vamp

Stand by your vamp
Never forget, he's Kindred
No matter how debased and camp
Stand by your vamp