Catching Up

My wife and I just bought a new TV. We seem to do this every seven years, but this time it was not due to the old set moving on to the great recycle centre in the sky (or the amenity tip). What prompted this purchase was the need for a larger screen.

We have always lived in small flats (and more to the point, had good eyesight) so we never needed a large TV. Our first was what I would term mid-sized. This was when we were first married—in 2002—back in the day when televisions contained a mamm...