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Hello, Elle!
Still wild here, too!
No messing with Erik!
I like the Pine Cone, it is like home from home for me.
The staff are very good with us, so if I go out, that's where I'll be.
The girls and their folks are going to a new Nando's for tea, tonight.
They like Nando's, but, needless to say, I've not been in one!
Now, the British Indoor Athletics Championships are taking place this weekend (I've forgotten where!) but you will have to take to Red Button to watch them.

Hi, Rusty!
Uhm...I cannot find out much about watching the British Athletics Indoor Championships this weekend?
Google tells me I can only watch it on "Connected TV or online"?
What, pray, is "Connected TV"?
I have never heard of it?!
And I have found no mention of the Athletics Championships being shown on the Red Button?
How did you know that?
Do you have a reference whereby I can find it, please?
I think Nando's only serves chicken ?
I have never been to a Nando's, either...but then I do not like chicken!

Isn't it 'Nando's' that have all sorts of different chilli options? I've only been to one at an airport, and I may be misremembering.

Hello, Elle!
I went into BBC Text, Sports, Sports Headlines, and found it in there.
It displays every sporting event BBC are showing for the next week, and where you can see it.
They are covering athletics and Alpine skiing, and some other sport, on Red Button.
I have heard of Connected TV, but I do not know what is it.
I shall try and find it for you when I finish this.
I had it in my head that Nando's is Portuguese food, but I could be wrong.
Not heard how they got on at the new Nando's!

Update, Elle!
Here's the Red Button schedule.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/43634915

Elle,
Connected TV.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/27047614

Hi, Rusty!
Oh dear! Why does it all have to be so complicated?
What happened to just switching on the television and simply watching a programme?
I have now found the Athletics on the Red Button schedule for Sunday (from your list, thank you).......
But I hadn't previously been looking for that ....I had not gone beyond searching for its showing on Saturday......
And I still cannot find that?
The Indoor Athletics only seems to be showing on Connected TV and Online...NO Red Button....on Saturday?
If I have read the programme wrongly ...or simply missed it......then I do abjectly apologise...especially after all your trouble......but I cannot find a Red Button transmission for Athletics on Saturday!
And I cannot set up this Connected TV malarkey on my TV!
I think from what I have heard that Nando's does all kind of chicken dishes?
But we shall know more when your family reports back!



Hello, Chris!
Sorry, but I have no idea...I have never been to a Nando's.
I had been told that it was basically chicken dishes - of all varieties - served there, so I never went as I don't much like chicken!

I've found a menu online, elle. We're both partly right - the menu is very chicken-orientated (not exclusively), and there is a lot of chilli (not exclusively)

Hello, Elle,
No, you are right.
Athletics are only on Connected TV tomorrow.
Bit strange seeing as they are on Red Button on Sunday.
I am not going to attempt to set up Connected TV.
I have umpteen sports channels as it is.
The Alpine skiing World Championships are on just now and that's my priority this weekend, and the golf at Pebble Beach.
You are probably right about Nando's menu.
I know my family like going there.
This new Nando's is taking the place of an Indian restaurant which went burst and was then bulldozed.

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, it is odd.......why offer the Red Button service one day, but not the other?
Ah well....I should be used, by now, to this letting down by the BBC on its Sports coverage ......
And I don't think it is possible to record the Red Button channel...is it?
I think our daughter and family are coming over on Sunday (or it may be tomorrow) and, if so, I shall not be able to watch the Athletics programme at its given time.
You will have a busy weekend ahead, if you are planning to watch both the Alpine skiing and the golf!
You aren't tempted to join your granddaughters tomorrow, and check out the new restaurant?



Hello, Chris!
I have been meaning to ask you how you like your electric car?
It is a while now since you got it.....
I was put in mind of it, when reading about our local Council setting up electric vehicle charging points in many of the Council car parks.