The Year Dot 2026

  So, something amazing happened this week.  Four humans were propelled from Earth on a huge firework; they saw the dark side of the moon for the first time, (cue Pink Floyd) and they travelled the furthest any human has ever travelled away from Earth. Then they were safely brought back to Earth, travelling at stupid miles per hour through the earth’s atmosphere and didn’t burn up into one celestial fireball, and landed plop into the ocean gently slowed down by the aid of three flimsy looking parachutes. When you stop and think about it, it is mind-boggling, really.   Now, unless you are a flat-Earth conspiracy theorist, and believe me, they are out there.  How does this work?  I mean. How? With just radio signals, they can talk to Earth and send live photos back.  I still don’t really understand how a TV works.   I wonder what those astronauts thought about when they saw our beautiful Earth getting smaller and smaller.  Do you think they thought...

New Rules: April 2026 As from the first of April this year new recycling rules have come into force across the UK.  All homes will have a food waste bin that will be collected weekly, a general waste bin that is collected every other week and a multi recycling waste bin for cardboard/paper, plastic/metal, and glass which is collected every other week alternating with the general waste. This has been implemented to get the UK rate of recycling up to 65% by the year 2035. At the moment Wales come out on top at 68.4%, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England are lower.  England I am ashamed to say is 44.6%.   Weekly food waste goes to specialised plants where it is turned into renewable energy and fertilizer. Cardboard is recycled into more cardboard, glass is recycled into more glass and what they are now doing with plastic is incredible, new clothing fibres etc. We in Cornwall have been doing this recycling for a while now, in fact according to Cornwall Council our rate...