In Canada there's a grey market for watching American Satellite TV. The companies are not allowed to sell their services here, but obviously the signal comes anyway so an enormous amount of people rip it off - several million by all accounts. There are two US Providers - and one of them recently rather cleverly changed their system so that it is no longer possible to rip it off, or at least nobody has found a stable way of doing it yet. Of course, this was the one we had, so bye bye hundreds of dollars worth of gear and bye bye decent TV. I must point out that were I able to subscribe to this service legally I would do - D loves Nickelodeon which is far more wholesome and entertaining than anything he can watch on Canadian TV, and they have better movies, more choice, not to mention BBC America. It was because of BBC America that we hooked up to the US Satellite in the first place.... they broadcast Eastenders only 3 wks behind the UK. But then, alas, they decided to stop showing it. This was shortly before the system went down for good so at that point we decided not to bother and just stick with the Canuck stuff. Someone offered us a system for the other Sat company but we turned it down, until I read this week that Eastenders is back, and on the other one! So we now have yet another box of gadgets by the TV at great expense.
It's almost time to get Patriotic for Euro 2004. Never watched it when I was back home, but suddenly it seems important to be supportive of my country and hang St George's Cross flags from the window of my car.
In bump news - I didn't really have much in the way of morning sickness earlier on in this pregnancy, just a few occasions where I felt a bit queasy. It's coming back. I woke up feeling really icky this morning. Apparently this is normal for this point, but urgh. I only seem to feel better once lunch is eaten.
I am also making a determined effort to check my blood sugars properly which I've got really slack about recently. Only because it's boring and they're always OK, but they could actually still go wonky so I need to be more diligent about it, effort has started this morning and after b'fast I was a little too high, doh.
Posted by katie at June 11, 2004 01:51 PM