The Travels & Adventures of Flog-It Removals.

Okay so the saga continues, no time for the pool, we arrived in a gale force wind and driving rain and some poor s*d had to go back onto the roof to sort out that dish. So after a cuppa, on went the thin jacket (I am not prepared for winter yet) and up I went. Couple of broken tiles - will sort those another time. Top dish totally disconnected from anything and broken plastic bracket - will take that down next time and throw it out. Above that dish, three TV aerials with a birds nest of wiring wrapped round them and disappearing down the chimney, and right at the bottom of the pile, the dish I have to work with if I can stay on the roof long enough to do it. So on closer inspection we have a tiny dish, currently aimed at Dutch TV, strapped to a pole that is fixed to the chimney at the bottom only because the top bracket has snapped, and above it a broken dish and three aerials with the whole thing flapping around in the wind like a flag. On top of that, it is persisting it down with rain and freezing cold, all does not bode well for this to work properly does it Algernon? To cut a short story long, after a lot of fiddling there was a scream over the walkie-talkie "YES!! That's it!! Leave it there, we have BBC1." "You're kidding?" God I'm good.... Time to go down and get warm, but only after deciphering the heating controls as they were set to kick in the boiler only when the ambient room temperature fell below 15 degrees, no wonder the poor tenants were freezing to death in here. Now at this altitude and with those winds, that setup for the dish will not last long so next thing is to get a bigger dish, lash the whole thing to the chimney securely and get rid of the duff dish to cut back on wind resistance and then repair those two broken roof tiles. But that's another day, when it's not so wet and windy, for now it’s home time.

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