The Final Countdown

Yes, it's finally here, well, almost anyway.  It's the moment I've been waiting for since 1998, when I was a mere slip of a girl.  Most of the country will have absolutely no understanding of what I have endured since that time, but where I live (in a county forgotten and ignored and treated with contempt by the powers-that-be), we have had to remain ignorant of popular global culture, and remain in our own little cocoon.

What am I talking about?  Well, this obviously:

The eagle-eyed of you will notice that the Great British Switchover started in my region in MARCH of this year.  Here we are in SEPTEMBER, and I have to wait just a little bit longer.  I only hope it's worth it. 

So, on the 7th of September, I will miraculously become digital.  I hope it isn't painful.  It's quite a delicate process, though, a bit like childbirth, completed in stages:

I'll let you know how I get through stage 1.

P.S. - I really, really, really want BBC 4, and heard a little whisper that they are going to axe it!!!!!  I'm thinking of writing to the Queen to protest.  I'm sure she watches BBC 4.