SHINING SOLAR (LIGHTS) SYSTEM
£2.31, which would be £54 today with inflation.
Across all age groups, cassette tapes came out on top for the nation’s most nostalgiainducing piece of technology. What?
Even when they warped or the tape got stuck or twisted and you had to rewind them onto a Bic biro?
And let’s not even consider a Walkman cassette player whose idea of a private listening device for music was to send anyone within hearing distance of its latent hiss to the verge of apoplexy and suggest it might be better positioned where the sun don’t shine. Well, it did after sitting next to one on the train from King’s Cross to Wakefield.
Doesn’t technology continue to be wonderful?
■■I READ that all the discarded Christmas lights could stretch to the moon and halfway back, which puts a new interpretation on the Milky Way.
They would also light every stretch of road across the country, a statistic I can believe as mine would definitely go most of the way to Barnsley, although they might play havoc with nervous drivers by flashing on and off in strange routines down bendy stretches of the A629.
■■Scott Butler, executive director of Material Focus that runs the Recycle Your Electricals campaign, has the serious message.
“Any old unwanted electricals contain valuable materials, such as copper, which can be used and made into anything from new lights to bikes, playgrounds or lifesaving equipment.”
If mine cease to function between now and the twelfth night, they shall be donated to the nearest Kirklees waste and recycling centre.