8 year old grandson made a very profound statement when discussing his family. “I wish we could all be the same age so that we could stay together” I think his 87 year old great grandad was forefront of the train of thought leading to this.

Blue Tuesday! 💙😎 1 of 2 very special Rolls Royce V8 tables!

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced. Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available. The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it. The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed. Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows. The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses. Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

RT @AJogee: Terrifying - and I don’t say that lightly

Our new home has apple trees in the garden. This is June drop. 🍏

How can this dilemma be resolved? Apparently beef cattle are too expensive to farm and beef is too expensive to buy 🤷🏼‍♂️ Sheep the same, even the fleece is worthless. How is this possible?

Some Labour MPs looked at the hammering they got in the local elections and thought another Assisted Dying Bill is the answer.

How about our MP’s put more effort into the existing lack of healthcare and end of life care instead of assisted dying?

Amongst the extreme misery of X this morning.. This 😂

Iran/US peace deal announced. UK under 16 social media ban announced. Massive Russian attack on Kyiv. Whose warped mind thought announce the return of the Assisted Dying Bill late last evening?

Pandora’s box. If this bill passes supposedly to give terminally ill people choice, how long will it be before the state is making that choice for them? The Assisted Dying bill was defeated. Lauren Edwards should be ashamed for proposing it again.

Very sad to see my colleague Lauren Edwards MP bringing the deeply flawed and unsafe Assisted Dying Bill back as a PMB. If it was safe and brilliant why did the Lords sponsor of the bill bring 77 amendments in the Lords? It cannot just be brought back as it is and forced through.

Seriously considering subscribing to @X with this £64 a year (first year) offer. How safe is my data if I do?

RT @antoniabance: Absolutely infuriating that one of my colleagues has decided that what Parliament should focus on in the coming months -…

It’s a gorgeous summer’s evening here in Newcastle-under-Lyme. About to pack my bag for Parliament and have just been told that there will be *breaking news* at 9:30 tonight. The Assisted Dying Bill is going to brought back to the House. Bad, bad news.

What a foolish decision to bring back the flawed assisted suicide Bill to the House of Commons. I suspect most MPs will not welcome this, even many who support the principle of AS. And it will prolong anxiety of vulnerable people who fear they would be at risk from it.

Its flaws are clear, its deficiencies are obvious and its effects will be horrendous for those most in need. I hope colleagues will read the Bill, study the words before them and realise the power of their vote.

Assisted dying returns to parliament as MP urges peers to 'finish the job'. The determination to get this bill through is chilling. It’s just going to be continually proposed by a different MP until it passes. 💀 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy…

I’m a bit conflicted about Climate Change…. In a world of 8bn people, the UK is a tiny island of, let’s say 80m people. So even if we get to net zero we will have a 1% impact. Yet China, Russia, India and the USA have a combined population of 3.38bn (42% of the world popn.) and they’re doing the opposite to help the environment and show no signs of changing tact. Meanwhile our UK businesses have climate change taxes to adhere to that make it difficult to compete on a world stage. However we all know Climate Change is real and it’s clear what a huge effect humans have on the earth. Regarding cars - Quentin Willson used to tell me that driving a 10 year old car, even though the emissions may be worse from the exhaust, is far better for the environment than driving a new car, as the CO2 in making a new car is huge, even if that car is an EV, and doesn’t outweigh the used car emissions in that time…. Do you think the UK should follow suit and be more like the USA or continue being as green as possible and be a trailblazer?

Whilst @BBCNews was wall to wall Royal “news” yesterday this happened. Do all Labours fallen just have to go and stand in the naughty corner for a while then all is forgiven? We’ll be seeing Nick Brown back in the government soon.