SIZEWELL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ~ SUFFOLK UK
ELECTRICITY ~ Has transformed all of our ...
LIVES since ninteen hundred ~ 1900
EVERYTHING has gradually been electrified !
COOKING ~ lighting ~ heating ~ calcuators
TRANSPORT ~ and of course Radio & TV ! Some will ...
REMEMBER gas lights ~ coal fires ~ and even ...
I remember ~ manual typewriters and
CALCULATORS ~ wind-up toys and watches etc !
LIVING without electricity is very difficult
I HAVE experienced oil lamps and candles ~ and
VISITED Family ~ cooking on coke & wood fires !
I COULDN'T live without a COMPUTER ~ and
NOW in the UK ~ Everyone depends on ELECTRICITY !
GENERATED by Coal ~ Oil ~ Gas ~ Wind ~ Solar ~ Nuclear
Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome ~ Love BRIAN XOX
When my Great-grandparents married in 1930 they moved into
an ALL-ELECTRIC HOUSE. They still had a wind-up gramophone
no telephone or fridge or freezer ! My Grandparents married in
1958 they had a telephone ~ radiogramme ~ fridge ~ freezer but
a manual calculator and a wind-up model train set. My Parents
married in 1980 and everything was electric ! In the 21st Century
ELECTRICITY RULES ~ OK ! Power Cuts grind life to a HALT !
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BRIANSODES (Pseudonym) (
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A fine write Brian. Oohh yes, of course I remember gas lights, being extremely old! heehee.
THANKS STEVE ~ THERE ARE lots of songs about "gas light" so i guess it must have been romantic ~ but you can't end it all by putting your head in the microwave ! A friend of mine tried it an ended up with a bright red Afro ! Yours BRIAN
I can recall gas lighting in older houses being converted to electricity back in 1960 - look at us now. Electronics are now the guiding force. My car is keyless, automatic start, no hand brake and a host of gadgets. But still I have to twist my gut reaching for the seat belt. Some things never change
Yes indeed MIKE ~ The Old gas Lighter of long-ago ! Electronics now it would be nice if there was button (labelled seat belt ~ I can't decipher the symbols on buttons !) which when you pressed it the seat belt automatically belted you up ! thanks BRAIN
Times certainly have changed, when I first started work as an analytical chemist back in the 60s the lab had one electro-mechanical calculator. If you setit to divide something by zero it would clatter on no stop, we had to turn it off completely.
The first computer I saw was housed in a building twice the size of my house!
You have seen lots of changes in Your lifetime ANDY ~ My Great-grandmother lived right through the 20th C (1900 ~ 1995) and saw infinite changes in her lifetime ! Miniturisation is the big feature and smart phones seem able to do anything ! I enjoy my Computer it links me to the "Outside World" with a vengeance ~ Thanks ANDY
Changes are features of more civilized living or so they say - - I loved coal or logs fires when the family gathered in cosy togetherness in days gone by - but must admit the computer age has me addicted to what is known as the electrically -smart technical world.
THANKS FAY ~ We all appreciate the advantages of the Technological Age in which we now live and sites like MPS are a great Blessing and "On Line Courses" like Future Learn ~ which is free. My only objection is the MOBILE PHONE which I find intrusive ad anti-social ~ I don't have one (yet !). My parents have an open Fire but only tend to light it @ Christmas ! Things have changed a lot since 1900 ! Yours as ever BRIAN
I could write a thesis on what my grandmother grew up with in the teens and 20's! (yes she is over a hundred) Very good conversation starter. I couldn't live without electricity! (with the exception of camping) Sister Christina
Thanks CHRIS ~ It\'s always good to talk to the elderly and recall their experiences. If they have PHOTO ALBUMS it\'s usful to get them to write on the back of PHOTOS ~ who they are and the dates etc. We have a scheme called \"ESSEX Recalled\" in which Seniors record their experiences which are then published. You MENTION \"CAMPING\" and when I was in the Cubs (now Beavers) ad Scouts (I was 10 in 1993) we camped under canvas and slept in Sleeping Bags on the ground (no camp beds just a ground sheet) and cooked on open wood fires and carved TOTEM POLES etc. We used STREAM WATER which we filtered (through sand) and boiled & cooled it before drinking etc ~ and we washed in the Lake or Stream etc. We went back to the 17 hundreds ! Many people Caravan and go Glamping ~ which is posh camping ! The problem with ELECTRICITY ~ it has to be generated from FUEL or ENERGY ! Fossil Fuels produce CO2 which has almost doubled in the last 250 Years ~ From 250 ppm to 400+ ppm and rising. This why we must increase our use of NUCLEAR ~ France has 80% Nuclear and no accidents ~ UK has 20% and the USA 20% (63% Fossil ~ 17% Renewable). In my view (in the developed World) we have allowed ourselves to be TOO TOO dependent on ELECTRICITY and the Underdeveloped World suffers from our Atmospheric Pollution (CO2 SO2 ~ NO2 ~ CFC\'s ~ Plastic waste etc ~ It\'s a big subject ~ HUGS Brother BRIAN
This poem is electric Brian, great to read you again, ww
THANKS WILLY ~ I always do my best to inform & entertain ~ Yours BRIAN
Mio Caro Amico, BRIAN...
(il tuo poema è elettrizzante)
Your poem is electrifying!
I hear so much from my
mom about how good we
have it today. She relates
so many stories about her
parents and grandparents
living without electricity and
running water! Amazing!
Un Abbraccio e Baci...
~Laura~
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