The weather seems to have stalled on ‘overcast’, but at least it’s dry and not sub-zero.
Thames Water came out again on Monday pm to clear the main drain under the road again – 3rd time in 6 weeks. Same chap as came the first time and he said he’s managed to punch a hole through the blockage so stuff has drained away, but (apparently) TW have to be called to fix the same problem four times before they’ll dispatch a CityFlex/CityVav lorry that has the power to vacuum out/pressure blast through the big blockages under the road.
I’m almost certain we’ll have to call them out again next month but, in the meantime, DH has written to the relevant whoever regarding the whole situation.
Meanwhile I’m having to be off the drugs for the next 24 hours so everything has time to revert to ‘normal’ before I see the Specialist tomorrow afternoon.
In the meantime I’ve been watching three very interesting episodes of the endlessly watchable Technology Connections on the interwebs about the history of RCA and their launch of the CED (Wiki – “The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by RCA, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special needle and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records”). I was going to put it on Interesting Stuff but I can’t face looking for that at the mo, so here are the links if anyone else is interested in 20th century tech history:
Part 1 – The CED: RCA’s Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnpX8d8zRIA
Part 2 – The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSFwyM2L5h4
Part 3 – RCA’s CED failed; their history can tell us why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwLDQSadE4