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We are very grateful that we now don’t have to go out and search for a wireless internet connection, because we have a dongle (mobile phone internet connection) at home. The only problem with the dongle is that it is not very consistent and is often slow, very slow or just cuts off entirely. We don’t have a TV, so listening to the radio is our main means of entertainment and keeping up to date with news. Because the internet is not reliable we continue to listen to the BBC world service on the radio. Our signal comes from Cyprus and in the late afternoon the signal begins to weaken and distort until it is unrecognisable in the evening. But years of listening to Radio Luxembourg 208 on my portable radio under the bed-sheets has prepared me for the fading signal that occurs every few minutes. Jane obviously didn’t listen to 208, she easily gets irritated by the distorted signal, but when you’re listening to the 2nd half football commentary from Old Trafford you just blank off the deteriorating signal and imagine Steven Gerrard scoring a hat-trick in the last 10 minutes against Manchester United. P