I’ve decided there are a lot of things I want made illegal.
It should be illegal for TV adverts to use doorbell sounds. The number of times I have gone to make some coffee during the adverts only to hear a distant ding-dong of a doorbell. Of course, going to the living room to check if it is an advert is useless because the advert will have ended by the time I get there – so I end up looking out of an open door at nothing.
And how about making it illegal to play tunes on radio that include the sound of police or ambulance sirens?
Microsoft updates – that would be another one to ban, except we sort of need them. Microsoft removed Onenote from the standard office download, so it has now got to be downloaded separately – and downloading it seems to remove every other App in Office.
I went down to the beach tonight to get photographs of the comet. I was surprised how close to the beach the streetlights were. Even at the edge of the country there was a lot of light pollution. We could do with reducing the intensity of light in a lot of areas.
I’m sure it must be a grumpy old man thing in part. But I have noticed the lack of noise as I go for my late night walks.
I remember one of my trips for wilderness trekking. Returning to civilisation I could smell the hydrocarbons in the air.
But the level of light pollution has really been really noticeable.