'We have to make a plan'

This jerry-rigged satellite actually worked.

We spent last weekend out at the fabulous Princes Grant Golf Estate, with old friends Mike and Sandi Boyce. The DSTV signal was not up, so we checked the dish. It had rusted and been blown off its bracket high up the three story building. The dish was not only rusted, but bent and detached from the coax cable. The LNB was somewhere else. Mike was desperate to watch the rugby, Blue Bulls vs The Sharks. I went up for a rest, and he panel-beated, twisted, fixed, joined, and balanced the dish on the wooden railing of the porch oustide the lounge ... and got a signal. No sound, just picture. So he was able to watch the game on the TV and listen to the commentary in Afrikaans on the radio. The radio was about four seconds ahead of the pictures, which was a bit weird. The Zimbos ... they always know how to make a plan! In the photo, you can see the screwdriver he used as the fine-tuning device for the signal. Top marks, Mr Boyce! The estate, near Stanger on the KZN North Coast, is magnificent.