When I moved to New York with Simone, we didn’t have a TV. We didn’t have money for a TV and we didn’t think it a priority. Besides, there’s the whole waste-your-brain-away argument, which comes in really handy when you’re too poor/cheap to acquire a TV. So then I got a job in the television industry, and was asked the inevitable, “What do you like to watch?” question, to which I replied, “Well, I don’t actually have a TV at the moment.” What happened next? A half-amused and half-reproachful, “You may want to get one.”

Then Andy came to New York and he came with a TV. Problem solved.

Now I am here in London, and I am, once again, TV-less. Once again, I am starting a new job in TV, only this time I have far less of an understanding of what the heck is on at any time of day. AND once again, it is becoming a bit of an issue. SO, my mission for this weekend was to track down a cheap but functional TV. Mission FAILED. Homebase doesn’t have them anymore. Dixon’s only has expensive small ones. John Lewis only has expensive big ones.

Never fear, I have since decided that ordering a TV online is the way to go. It has the added bonus of arriving at the flat, and it is now the only place that I have seen cheap working TVs. I will certainly update when the TV situation gets squared away.

In the mean time, not having TV is a very good way to get caught up on Strong Bad Emails.