Got a nice surround sound system and fairly frequently some of the dramas are rather quiet on the speech, being drowned out sometimes with background noise and music, although I must point out that since I don’t often get the time (or the inclination) to watch much TV or invest time in something that I would need to watch for several weeks, but the wife keeps me informed about how bad most of it is.

She has indeed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36094827

Goodbye to the world’s oldest hound, who lived to the equivalent of over 200 human years old…

Maggie the Kelpie, an Australian dog that was possibly the oldest canine in the world, has died.

Owner Brian McLaren, a dairy farmer in Woolsthorp, Victoria, confirmed the news to The Weekly Times.

“She was 30 years old, she was still going along nicely last week, she was walking from the dairy to the office and growling at the cats and all that sort of thing,” he told the newspaper, adding that the dog has started deteriorating two days previously…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/world-s-oldest-dog-maggie-the-kelpie-dies-a6989786.html

Gotta mind the gap.

But he died – http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?138283-Recent-Deaths-Of-People-You-May-Have-Heard-Of&p=2306936#post2306936

Although…it might be a hoax.

Reading the comments beneath the story questions whether anyone could name any of the 1500 customers since the story obviously doesn’t…

Not sure how legally binding a waiver might be regarded – it might need some sort of insurance premium to cover Key and a whole heap of hassle to organise and maintain, which might mean that it would just not be worth the effort.

On the other hand it might now all be fine, just going by what I understand from other forums attempts to organise a sales and exchange section…