Philip Nicosia

Don’t you just hate it when things break down? Our Sky+ box decided to die at the worst possible time. We have just been away for a week and all the programes we recorded have now gone. It’s not really too much of a big deal and in a way it frees up some time that would have been spent catching up on all these programes.

You just don’t realise how much you take these things for granted though. We had a spare Sky box we plugged in so we can still watch TV but its amazing to see how you miss the features of Sky+.

No more live pause, no more rewind, no more recording of programes and then being able to skip through the adverts (that’s a real time saver).

So I rang Sky to order a new box. After trying 4 times I was told they couldn’t place my order as their system wouldn’t allow it to go through as a self install even though they had sent me a letter offering this only a week before. I was told to try again in a few days.

Now I’m not the most patient person in the world and 24 hours without Sky+ was bad enough and I didn’t fancy waiting another week. So I hoped on over to Ebay and got a deal on a brand new Sky HD box with a 300GB hard drive for recording TV programes and Sky’s new Sky Anytime programming.

We don’t have a HD TV yet but I asked the seller if it would work on a normal TV and was told it would as it has a scart output. I don’t even have to pay the extra £10 to Sky for HD channels either as I couldn’t watch them anyway.

I figured this was the way to go as it will only be a matter of time before we upgrade our TV and it will save on the cost of a new box when the time comes. A Sky+ box was going to cost me £99 and this HD box was only £173.00 so it was worth the extra to be future proof.

If you fancy getting a Sky HD box without paying £299.00 to Sky then the seller has some more of these:

• SKY HD REMOTE CONTROL & MAGIC EYE KIT 10M WHITE CABLE !
2 Sep 2010 at 9:01pm
£13.99 (0 Bid)
End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 21:01:06 BST
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• SKY+ REMOTE CONTROL & MAGIC EYE KIT 10M WHITE CABLE !!
1 Sep 2010 at 9:17pm
£13.99 (0 Bid)
End Date: Wednesday Sep-08-2010 21:17:07 BST
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• SHARP QUAD LNB HD LOW NOISE SKY PLUS SKY HD FREESAT
14 Apr 2010 at 10:10pm
£7.50
End Date: Saturday Sep-11-2010 22:15:34 BST
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In what has to be the most on-off, on-off, on-off relationship on TV it’s definately off! (Unless they get back together on the outside)

Chanelle has left the Big Brother house.

She didn’t say anything to anyone, simply went into the diary room with her suitcase - and didn’t come back….

Further to a previous post about Brian’s Golf Sale T-Shirt, FindingFenella, the original seller of the Golf Sale T-shirts on Ebay has kindly offered a 25% discount off the price of their Golf Sale T Shirts to anyone reading this blog.

You can view FindingFenella’s listings here.

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• Sale BNWT Navy J Lindeberg Topler Golf Belt Sz 34/95
8 Aug 2010 at 11:50am
£29.99
End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 11:50:12 BST
Buy It Now for only: £29.99
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• ? 24 SRIXON AD 333 GOLF BALLS - SALE - GRADE A ?
4 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
£16.99 (0 Bid)
End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 12:00:57 BST
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• ? 48 TITLEIST MIX GOLF BALLS - SALE - PEARL / GRADE A ?
4 Sep 2010 at 12:11pm
£26.99 (0 Bid)
End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 12:11:07 BST
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• ? 24 NIKE ONE BLACK GOLF BALLS - SALE - GRADE A ?
4 Sep 2010 at 1:06pm
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End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 13:06:56 BST
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They have them available in all sizes and many colours including the classic Green Golf Sale T-Shirt. To get your 25% discount contact the seller through Ebay’s ask seller a question and tell them you saw them here.

And not a minute too soon. The odds on favourite 500-1 to go tonight and bookies already paying out it’s a sure bet she will be gone later.

I wonder how she will react to all the boos and whether she will ignore them as before and think that everybody loves her.

According to a poll carried out by the Sun Newspaper, Charley is officially the most hated housemate in Big Brother history getting 4 times the votes of the runner up in the poll.

Why doesn’t that surprise me?

What I do think is strange is that she thinks she’s loved on the outside after going through the fake eviction. She obviously ignores all criticism and even though the crowd were shouting ‘Get Charley Out!’ and holding banners saying the same she remains oblivious to it all.

Charley is just a big bully and will pick on anyone indiscriminately. You would have thought that Big Brother would have learnt their lesson last time and although they did kick Emily out for using a racist comment they seem to think that Charley makes good viewing.

They don’t seem to care that her behaviour is offensive to both viewers and other housemates and have been accused of manipulating the voting to keep her him.

The Sun has even gone so far as to say that Big Brother has been fixed.

I for one hope she will be up for eviction next week and get booted out to the most hostile crowd ever. The sad thing is Charley is going to be rewarded both in terms of fame and fortune having been on the show but does she really deserve it?

I don’t think so.