Just back from a week cycling in France. Fantastic. Although I couldn’t get the television to work in the place we stayed. It was the two remote controls and the digi-box wot confused me. When I did eventually manage to make it work (after half an hour) it seemed to be full of advertising and the ubiquitous soft porn adverts for sex phone numbers (do people really use these? I presume they do as they are advertised everywhere, including in the newspapers). Left wondering why someone, anyone, somewhere can’t invent and build an idiot proof television set, and a simple *single* remote control with the following buttons:

on- off - channel up - channel down - volume up - volume down - that really would be enough for me.

I would have so much preferred to have a radio.