LETTER OF THE DAY: For the second day since Thursday my television set is blank, because of the re-arranging of channels on the Southern Downs, so we are told.

Frankly, I don't mind a bit that the television boffins have cut off my evening news and entertainment.

Our household teenagers have grown and flown and without them for "re-channeling" I do not antagonise the technology monster that lurks inside the television remote.

It is such a relief not to be treated to the nightly litany of human catastrophe caused by bomb, bullet, knife or automobile.

And there are only so many reality shows you can stomach before brain death sinks in. Also, who really misses those chaps screeching out loud ads.

I am secretly pleased, though that this channel change has occurred after the current series of Downton Abbey finished.

I have now delved more into that other form of older world entertainment called "a good book".

Surely Groucho Marx was right when he wrote, "I find television very entertaining. Every time somebody turns on a set, I go into the other room and read a book."

No doubt one of my young adults will turn up and wake up the hibernating monster in its black box. Until then, good reading to you all.

• PETER KNOBEL, Centenary Heights