Going digital

Today our area has reached the first stage of digitalisation of the television signal so of course the set has had to be retuned. We go through the final part of the process in two weeks time when again we will have to repeat the retuning process.
Because my television set is not too old and has Freeview built in, it can easily accept the digital pictures as it has been doing since I bought it. Not too long before I bought the set I had to have a new aerial because the other one was so old that a bit had broken off and rain was getting into the lead and had travelled all the way down and was only about four feet from the set itself.
So, I was ready and set for the digital process when it started but increasingly over the last six months or so the sound kept disappearing and the picture broke up and pixilated very regularly especially when certain cars went past the house. This has always happened right at the most inappropriate moments so very often I have missed an important part of the dialogue and end up not knowing what's really going on.
Sometimes it has been so bad when cars sit outside round the corner somewhere with their engines running that I have jumped up and even opened the front door to see if I could find the culprit and give them a mouthful of prudently selected vocabulary that I rarely use and certainly not in public!
I was beginning to think this digitalisation process was going to be a waste of time and that I would have to cough up for Sky or cable which I can't afford, or I would have to phone the helpline and complain bitterly. But lo! I have retuned my set, I'm sitting down with a cuppa, the commuters are driving past on their way home and so far I haven't had any problems with the sound or the picture.
Let's hope it stays that way!