Because we have thick-ish carpets (who thought that was a good idea in a hot climate?) our book cases are not stable. We have solved this by putting pieces of chipboard / MDF under some of them which has helped. This morning we went to buy some more so that I can unpack some more boxes of books. It surprises me that I still have to spend my weekend visiting DIY stores.
Martin suggested that as we were at the shopping centre already we would buy some new movie watching stuff. Our combined DVD/VCR has packed in after only a year or two. It was a Philips and I am starting to feel that the Asian makes (Samsung, LG etc.) has served us better, although not very highly thought of. What I really need is a new VCR as I suspect they will go out of fashion shortly (like the Record Players) and I will be stuck with hundreds of tapes I cannot watch. I think that is top of the list as a stand-alone player.
Then we will look into what DVD player to get at a later stage (until we get a new one we can watch them on the PCs). They have all sorts of cool ones now, I am specifically interested in getting one with a USB port (so I can watch all the movies I have on my external HDD), but there are also some which comes with HDD so that I can watch a VHS tape on the telly, then record it onto the DVD HDD and save my precious tapes. There is a lot to learn and it will take me a while.
We'll see, but I'll try to get a new VCR tomorrow in any case.
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