I can't believe how stressful my day has been and all over a bloody outdoor aerial! Well it all started when yet again my freeview box came up with the message 'no channels located please check your antenna connection' I checked the connection and even re-tuned the freeview but to no avail could I get it working. I wasn't too worried as my kind neighbour has the knack of fixing it (this had become a frequent mishap of late) so I called upon his expertise and hey presto it's fixed again. This time instead of just fixing it he showed me how to do it, cause no doubt it would play up again.

My viewing was short lived as the familiar message popped up yet again so I tried to do what my neighbour had showed me (sound in theory a lot harder in practice) lol and as I was doing so I suddenly noticed water leaking from inside the outdoor aerial cable. Now not to be sexist but being a woman my knowledge on electricals is next to non existance but I did have the nouse to understand by no means should water be leaking from inside that aerial cable. Also more to the point how long had it been like that? I checked the freeviewbox where the aerial goes in and there was rust so it had obviously been leaking for a while, not a good sign.

I rang my landlord to tell her what was going on and thankfully she said would have an electrian round in the next couple of days. Only after I'd put the phone down did I realise I had no T.V. what the hell was I suppose to do to keep myself entertained? Now to be honest I wasn't so much bothered about me cause I have the internet to keep me amused (once the child is tucked up in bed that is) but I didn't know what I was going to do in the mornings as my son usually watches his usual dose of 'Dora The Explora' (don't ask long story lol) before I send him packing for nursery. When a friend advised me if I purchased an indoor aerial and plugged that into the back of the freeview box it would do the trick so off to Asda I went.

I got it home to find it was faulty I wasn't amused but I didn't let that stop me I went back and exchanged it. When I got home for the second time I set it all up following the instructions all on my own and I was quite pleased with myself that is, until I tried to tune the freeview box back in, it was having none of it. Picture the scene television pulled out from it's usual spot, wires everywhere and myself sitting on the floor, legs akimo, pouring over the instructions to see if I had missed anything and I hadn't.

After a further half hour I gave up and rang my friend who came round and tried to set it up but again no such luck so in the end I resorted to tuning in the terrestial channels and I have ended up with BBC Wales and S4C with a crap reception at that! It's days like these that I realise being single is crap (no boyf on hand to do the DIY around the house) but I am genno chalk this incident up to 'one of them days'.