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Day 66 - Wednesday 20th May 2020

Location: London, UK COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak Lockdown It's amazing how long you can put up with something that is broken or has ceased to work in exactly the way it should.  The work-arounds you find.  The small sacrifices. This was the case with our very hardworking Humax remote control. I think the first feature to stop working was the  MEDIA  button to take you to recordings - never fear there was the  MENU  option to resolve this, but it meant 2 pressings of a button, but that's ok. The  SKIP FORWARD  button stopped working a while ago (probably 6-8 months at a guess) so we used  FAST FORWARD  instead. PLAY  and  PAUSE  gave up at some stage -  OK  it is then Then  STOP  stopped working -  EXIT  will do... Finally,  FAST FORWARD  stopped and an arrow button was used to fill the gap. Now, this just shows how clever a simple remote control is.  It's also...