Wednesday of last week, my satellite decided not to work anymore. Subsequent investigations revealed that the holidaying Egyptian in the flat next door had used his own satellite engineer to fix his satellite. In the process he managed to take out all the satellites in the building! No-one had tv anymore except for the wonderful Egyptian channels which are obviously all in arabic!
The said engineer was fetched back, wandered around a bit scratching his head and disappeared, promising to return on Friday. Hmmmmm Friday? Like I believed he would return.
In the meantime I am unable to watch tv in English, hubby was away and I managed to read more books than I have ever done in my life! The flat is exceptionally clean as well.
Saturday saw the landlord here with his own engineer. This one seemed to know what he was talking about, and apparently someone had been on the roof and messed around with all the cables, so the whole thing needed re-cabling. And the dishes were being moved from the roof terrace to the roof of the studio apartment. But not on that day.
By yesterday, Wednesday, I was bored of reading, the flat was ultra clean, all ironing done and I threw a strop!
Today, (while being told the engineer would be here at 11am) the engineer arrived at just after 2pm.... ok, not bad for egyptian time. At least it is the same day. He then proceeded to throw a new cable down from the roof, dropping it down over the balcony above me, and bringing it in through the patio doors! Hey Presto! I have satellite back!!
But...... the cable....... all the cables are internally fixed into the walls. This one is outside and there is nowhere to bring it in. Now for me, it would make sense to drill a small hole and thread it through, or is that too much to expect? No....... I now have a rather thick cable descending onto the balcony, tied around the wrought iron railings, draped across the middle of the balcony and in through the open patio door!
So in order to watch tv, we now have to have the door open and have to unplug the satellite so that we can close the door.
Supposedly, this is temporary until the landlord can come and look. It will be interesting to see how long that actually takes.
Just thought I would also share this felucca convoy picture that I took on Monday while out walking with a friend. We were out for 5 hours..... walked along the River Nile on the West Bank, then cut inland to Esba before heading back through Tod and back down into the village and home.
The said engineer was fetched back, wandered around a bit scratching his head and disappeared, promising to return on Friday. Hmmmmm Friday? Like I believed he would return.
In the meantime I am unable to watch tv in English, hubby was away and I managed to read more books than I have ever done in my life! The flat is exceptionally clean as well.
Saturday saw the landlord here with his own engineer. This one seemed to know what he was talking about, and apparently someone had been on the roof and messed around with all the cables, so the whole thing needed re-cabling. And the dishes were being moved from the roof terrace to the roof of the studio apartment. But not on that day.
By yesterday, Wednesday, I was bored of reading, the flat was ultra clean, all ironing done and I threw a strop!
Today, (while being told the engineer would be here at 11am) the engineer arrived at just after 2pm.... ok, not bad for egyptian time. At least it is the same day. He then proceeded to throw a new cable down from the roof, dropping it down over the balcony above me, and bringing it in through the patio doors! Hey Presto! I have satellite back!!But...... the cable....... all the cables are internally fixed into the walls. This one is outside and there is nowhere to bring it in. Now for me, it would make sense to drill a small hole and thread it through, or is that too much to expect? No....... I now have a rather thick cable descending onto the balcony, tied around the wrought iron railings, draped across the middle of the balcony and in through the open patio door!
Supposedly, this is temporary until the landlord can come and look. It will be interesting to see how long that actually takes.
Just thought I would also share this felucca convoy picture that I took on Monday while out walking with a friend. We were out for 5 hours..... walked along the River Nile on the West Bank, then cut inland to Esba before heading back through Tod and back down into the village and home.
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