A Happy New Year to one & all. Some of you will know that this isn't the happiest times of year for poor Connor but he is glad to see the back of gaudy houses, visible from space with the number of bloody lights and illuminated tacky Christmas characters. In this green age surely we should be taxing the blighters for wasting valuable resources.
The year 2050. A small boy sits on his father's knee. He looks at him, tears tracking down his cheek. 'Daddy, why is the sky so sooty and black, and large cracks in the ground.' The Dad wipes the boy's eye (he only has the one, the other rotted away from pollution ... or something). 'It's OK son, it's just the earth decaying, but it's alright, when I was a lad, all the houses were lit up like Las Vegas at Christmas time and we all had a ruddy good time. Shame we kinda buggered it up for you a bit but ho hum, can't be helped.'
One last thing, does anyone know if street lights use energy saving light bulbs. I'm sure someone must have thought of this before so I imagine it's already been done but imagine what a difference that would make if we could save energy on every street light in the country. In my fantasy world, we could get young offenders and people on community service to go around and change them all.
That's the majority of the planet saved, I'm off to take my new giant telly off standby and go for a lickle lie down me thinks.