I opened up my internet yesterday to find an article saying that there could be a bidding war over the right to cover Premier Division football on television after the current agreement with Sky and BT comes to an end.
Companies like Apple TV and Amazon Prime loom large on the horizon and the only people that suffer from any bidding war, apart from those that lose out, will be the viewers who continually have to chop and change, cancel subscriptions and take out new ones. It all becomes very confusing.
And I guess that being traditionalists we prefer to stick with what we know. There are now so many television channels that it is just confusing. In Steward Towers we tend to still stick with BBC, ITV and Channels Four and Five. Going further afield can be very confusing and even disorientating.
Apparently, Apple TV are in with a real chance of getting the football. Of course, if you don't like sport, none of this will really matter anyway.
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Hooray. On Saturday we had one of those rare days when we had nothing in the diary. So, we hopped on a bus for the short journey to Wymondham. The world of buses has just changed for us thanks to an app mentioned by a friend. No more standing out in the rain hoping on hope that a bus will magically appear round the corner but then getting upset when one never does. Now we can track exactly where a bus is and time leaving home to just have to wait a very short while for it to arrive. We need to get that timing just right of course, otherwise we will miss it. I just hope the app continues to work and doesn’t crash as so many do.
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I wish TV hosts would stop exaggerating. Matt Tebbutt on some second rate Saturday Kitchen programme introduced a chef with the words. “Everyone is raving about your book.” Patently not true because this person (ie me) had 1/ never heard of the chef and 2/ didn’t know he had a book out and 3/ realised that probably only a very small handful of people have been raving about the book – probably that would be two – his mum and dad.
But back to Wymondham. We did a small bit of shopping, popped into the Abbey to have a quick look round and then had lunch before getting the bus home again. I did stop to take a small number of photos which are reproduced here. You will see the statutory picture of the Abbey amongst them.