Yesterday, through experimentation we reached an antenna conclusion that perhaps didn’t align with all or even any of the published pseudo science we’d read. Not wishing to add anything else to the already muddied water that comprises the compendium of online knowledge of the subject, we fiddled a bit more to make where we got to yesterday look as though it will still be there tomorrow.
The world of VHF antenna is, like the world of everything else, awash with lies, damned lies and statistics and it’s getting quite difficult to know which bits one could usefully commit to memory and which bits to dispose of thoughtfully. We once again wrote to the supplier’s helpful support team setting out where we’d got to, and put the whole thing all more or less out of mind pending their reply during normal working hours tomorrow.
Don’t blame the internet though, disinformation used to happen long before “on the line” was a twinkle in its parent’s eyes.
Jacques once famously told us of his time running cruise barges, that his passengers didn’t want to know answers, they just wanted to ask questions, which is why, if asked every crop they passed became "Mustard of Dijon"
We feel a bit lazy and even a teensy bit guilty but can we be excused from joining the walking tour this afternoon?
We are pretty much questioned out, and informationed out as well for now, for what it’s worth.
How, we wondered, can knowing that in the twelfth century, someone living in any given house made candles for a living, or that someone else was imprisoned in the tower for twenty something years, possibly affect our lives going forward? It certainly isn’t likely to improve our VHF reception.
On another day, of course the guide’s banter would be entertaining, informative and even enriching. If we could remember any of it we’d be a certain favourite on a trivia night, but today it would have just made our heads hurt.
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