@Gordon Nichols we do have BBC as well - news-wise they're fairly impartial - whch of course means they're vilified by both left and right equally! The present government is doing it's best to defund/close the BBC because they want a version of Fox News, but at the moment it's hanging in there, much like the NHS. The licence fee is £150 a year, which I think is a uniquely British thing - if you have a TV you have to have a TV licence which funds the BBC. Of course a lot of people complain but for that we get 3 BBC TV channels, the iPlayer, 6 radio channels with great music and the best comedy and, of course, Test Match Special (for us cricket fans). I think it's good value but some people don't like the enforced nature of the licensing. We have 5 main terrestrial channels now - Channel 4 came along in 1982 (the year I was at college and watched the Navy Task Force sail from Portsmouth harbour to the Falklands) and that's all we had for years before Sky arrived in '89. Ok, history lesson over (but I do find cultural history fascinating).
I feel for you doing in-car wiring - it's often the least comfortable job and also, for me at least, the most fraught because I'm always on the edge of my knowledge - when something goes wrong I'm invariably out of my depth trying to troubleshoot. I need to wire in a dual tone horn but that means a relay and I know I'll take an age to ensure I get it right! But better slow and right than fast and wrong.
Today I managed to get the floorboards cut out and a first coat of marine varnish applied. I'll do a second coat tomorrow and hopefully Sunday I can fit them. I've put a little bit of sound dampening on the VW floorpan to deaden resonating noise - not a lot because it's borderline useful on a ragtop. I also gave the exhaust a going over with wet&dry to tidy it up a bit. I was considering polishing it but gave up on that idea - not practical for ongoing maintenance.