Sky Dish Rant...

So last week our Sky dish went on the fritz. Nothing unusual there, it happens once or twice a year for us. We are used to dealing with it….

So The Wife ‘phones Sky – “I’m sorry, but as you live in a Council block of flats, and you have a communal dish you will have to contact your local Council..”

Local Council – “I’m sorry, but as the dish was installed by ‘SkyDishFuckups Ltd’, you’ll have to contact them…”

SkyDishFuckups Ltd – “I’m sorry, but we don’t deal with Sky dishes anymore, we’re now called ‘SurlyBastard & Son, Electrical Goods Ltd’. You’ll have to contact the Council and get the new contractor to deal with it ..”

Local Council (again) – “But, could you not just make do with watching terrestrial telly like the rest of us..?” – WTF? WE PAY FOR SKY, WE CAN’T GET IT BECAUSE YOUR EQUIPMENT IS FUCKED…SORT IT…! “Oh! I’m sorry, but you’ll have to contact ‘Sky Installer & Repairs Ltd’, he deals with the installation and maintenance of communal dishes now…”

Sky Installer & Repairs Ltd– “I’m sorry, but the maintenance guy is on holiday, and won’t be back until the end of next week. Our other guy could take a look at it, but he’s got a bad back…”


We went out on Sunday evening for The Wife’s Father’s birthday – a thoroughly average Chinese meal. Got home at about 11.30pm, just in time to start watching The Ryder Cup highlights on BBC1, cursing that I was unable to watch it ‘live’..

I switch on the TV, and absent-mindedly switch on Sky at the same time, and - Lo! And Behold! – Sky is now working!

We guess that this must be a temporary happening, as no-one in their right mind would come out on a Sunday to fix it. But it continued to work all the next day, until about 1.30am the next morning, when it just suddenly stopped again.

So, nearly two weeks of watching the 4 (incredibly crappy) terrestrial channels that we get. Arse.

There’s been some good stuff on the wireless lately…..