"Our TV picture had slowly become more intermittent until last Friday when it was off with just occasional bouts of a brief picture - and of course that was only when the adverts were on.
Late on Friday evening I squeezed through the loft access to inspect the co-ax which runs from the dish. It runs through the loft and finally appears downstairs at the TV where the sprites emerge out of the end.
All appeared OK as I crawled through the lattice of beams but after limboing into the far corner of the loft I spotted a clue:
A pile of walnut shells on top of the roof insulation between the joists. I shimmied into the eves, knocking down cascades of 120 year old soot to investigate further.
After a birth-like squeeze under the last beam to access the lowest point in the corner, I was in reach of the co-ax. As I brushed away the soot-laden cobwebs from decades of arachnoid activity I spotted the problem. Some of the small furry rodents which I have graciously provided with walnut treats in our garden appeared to have been using the loft as a dormitory.
They also appear to have been using the sky co-ax as dental floss after partying on their walnut stash."
And, thoughtfully, for the more literately challenged of the Regulars he kindly summed up the story pictorially:
P.S. They have to find their own walnuts now and should consider themselves lucky not to have been made into a Davy Crockett hat.
The Dark Lord
(The only Goth in the Village)
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