We have pictures!

We've been without a tv for 7 weeks, after the new one sent to Broome failed to work. According to the phone book, the first place after Broome that had a tv repair place was Geraldton, nearly 2,000km further South. We proposed to the tv manufacturer that we would attempt to get the new set fixed when we got to Geraldton and send them the bill, but to our surprise they said they would send us another new one. We were a little sceptical, the company hasn't been the easiest to deal with and it has taken a lot of expensive phone calls to get this far with them. However to our pleasant surprise when we arrived at Geraldton on Wednesday afternoon and went to the dealer there was our new (high definition, digital) tv waiting for us. We brought it back to the van, did an autotune and this time instead of failing after 10 minutes the tv kept on showing pictures. So now we are back in touch with the rest of the world.

Mind you, the quality of tv programming doesn't seem to have improved in the interim!