"Sally Thompson" wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:06:51 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote
(in article ) :

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I've fried green tomatoes and they are very good. Last year I tried
making a
green tomato puree and it was not good - to our taste anyway. Still have
no
idea about the film - we haven't a television and don't go to the cinema,
too busy with real life :-)



Wayhay! Good for you Mary. There are a lot of us about. Let's hear it
for
those others who don't have a television :-) And before you ask, Judith
(not
getting at you, but looking down thread at your question to Mary), yes we
have many radios, we do read the newspapers, we can if we want watch video
clips on the BBC web site - for instance of the house falling into the
river
in Ludlow, which seemed pretty relevant to us.

We have a radio in every room, even the greenhouse. Wall to wall Radio 4 -
that doesn't mean we listen to it all the time though. No newspapers but
lots of specialist magazines. Never think of watching any news web sites, I
don't think my life could be enriched by seeing pictures.

And, what's more, we have finally after about 20 years got the TV
Licensing
people off our back (ssshhh, don't tell them I said so).

The only time a chap came from there we were in the front garden, can't
remember what we were doing. I invited him into the house but he refused,
said he could tell that we didn't have a tv.

???

Not having a TV
does not mean we are out of touch,

Out of touch with what? And would it matter? Not to us, we're in touch with
what does matter to us, thanks to telephone, computer, car and videocam.

although it does mean we have never
watched Big Brother or Coronation Street.

Heavens! I watched Coronation Street when it was new - my parents bought a
tv when I was 17 (more than 50 years ago) so I have seen that. And when
Spouse was in hospital in Darlington I was put up at the airport hotel I
couldn't sleep and there was no radio so I put on the telly, there was Big
Brother. Boring or what! I didn't realise that reality tv meant showing
people asleep in bed!

It didn't stay on long, I didn't realise that I am not getting at you
Judith for
your question to Mary, just making a point for the rest of us since I do
get
amazed at the sort of "but what do you do in the evenings? question. I
even
had the classic one once, "but what do you watch?"!

Yes sigh I was once taken to task for not having one, a neighbour told me
that we should have one because it was part of our culture.

Heigh ho!

Back to ironing the dismantled awning while he's sewing in a new window :-)

Mary