Secret Life of the National Grid

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strangely fascinating!

you lot have absolutely no idea how interesting this is!

I feel like I should reply to this.

Not because I watched it, or have any interest in it, but because its a random thread title

However, I once watched a programme on the Nat Grid, and they used to have to prepare for the end of Eastenders because the demand would go wild with all the kettles going on!!

they certainly do. they all sit there in a control room (in a secret location....) with the tv on getting tense.
honest!

Yes! I remember that bit. The man described it along the lines of split second timing or it would be carnage!!

It was serious stuff :\

very serious.
the thing that blew my mind most was about the pylons - the ones we see everywhere - they are the original ones, 80 years old!

Pylons are fascinating!

wish I had known this was on!

Do you think its on iplayer?

Look at those two, being all sarky and gatecrashing our convo

so when is it repeated?

they repeated it last night at midnight for some reason. I expect there'll be a bestselling dvd though
the good news is, it was the first in a series.

It was very interesting, wasn't it. It's one of those things that you don't think about, you just take it for granted. I was amazed that it was only instituted in the twenties, you think that it would be older than that.

When they first started wind-farms, I was anti but then I thought "would I have said the same about electric pylons, which are a Very Good Thing" and I softened my view a bit. It's the shock of the new innit.

I got strangely into this too, after having had my fun mocking DH for watching such a geeky programme. Bit though that this seems to be the first in a multi-part series...not sure what else they're going to tell us!

So yes I liked it, but don't like that I liked it as it made me lose face/eat my words with DH!

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really interesting. especially at the end when they timed the electricity flow with the end of eastenders and corrie... never knew that had such a big effect.

Want to watch this on iplayer but afraid that dh will look at me like this [hhmm]!

It was fab! I love this sort of show.