[Maru]

Originally Posted by Garfie

Aww, thank you, Maru. Your comments mean a lot.

No problem. It's well-deserved.

Originally Posted by MTVN

Maru: great contributions throughout the highlight discussions and other threads, always has an interesting angle

Garfie: always worth reading Garfies posts, a lot of thought and consideration clearly goes into them

Ray: reliable solid opinions on all things BB

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I didn't watch last week so couldn't nominate but this week my noms are:

Garfie - agree with a lot Garfie says and enjoy reading their posts

Maru - love her posts on this and the commitment to watching BBUK from the States.

MTVN - agree with a lot of what he says too

Thank you, both of you

It's not too bad technologically-speaking to watch from the US. I use Hola VPN's desktop app. The sacrifice is I give a little bit of bandwidth for others to use my American bandwidth so they can connect also, which I'm on a fiber connection. Otherwise it allows me to watch for free... I'm sure there's some limitation as far as how much I can watch, but I've not hit that limit just watching the live show, live feed and rewatching any episodes I may need to rewatch... it works really well and have had zero issues with it since discovering that method.


In some ways, it's more convenient for me that it's midday. So about 2-3pm... we're off from each other about an hour for about a week as we do our daylight savings on different dates. If it were in "real time" 9-10pm here, I'd really struggle. I'm usually tired by 7-8 these days with my current schedule...

The nice thing locally about being in Central time is most late evening shows are an hour earlier than in the Eastern timezone, so I get to enjoy the best stuff a bit earlier ... that's a real perk for me.. and shows like the Bachelor/DWTS would be even earlier than that so we used to enjoy a late dinner with the family while getting our daily dose of drama... I'm allergic to drama and OTT nonsense in my real life, so this is my vitamin/supplemental fix...