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Thanks for your advice. No, I know better than that and always uncoil the lead. In the case of the mother-in-law, it wasn't a coiled lead anyway.

Thanks for your advice. Personally, I would do that, but the electrician who will extend the wall socket has said not to. I'll leave it up to the wife and the mother-in-law! They'll decide whether it's worth buying a new fire.

The mother-in-law bought an electric fire (from B&Q) and, as she was already having some work done, asked the gas man to connect it up for her. Now I am not criticising gas men generally, I know one or two good blokes, but this chap was happy to use a standard multi-socket extension lead as the...

I'm not an electrician, so I suppose I should keep my gob shut! However, I agree that a bare earth wire would be advantageous in such situations. Perhaps I must have missed something, but what is the advantage of having an insulated earth wire, apart from any proposed legal requirements?

Do you have a cat? Could it have found some way in under the bath?

Ah, but magnets don't scrape the paint off the pipes!

Or use a magnet!

We have had our TV for several years now. Although it is 3D capable, and we still have a pair of 3D glasses, along with a few 3D DVDs (I think one of them may be a Lord of the Rings recording), we haven't made use of the feature for years. Now I think of it, I might have another look at that...

Thanks. I have looked and the tabs are all listed as before. Nothing to suggest anything is wrong. I shall just hope that the usual button comes up to restore the saved tabs next time.

Every now and again, my Edge browser opens without the nine tabs I have set and always use every day. Admittedly, a box appears to restore all the tabs, but is there some way I can ensure that the browser opens with all the tabs whenever I open it? Yes, I know it's only a minor problem, but why...

Hear hear. A few years ago, we intended to buy a new laptop for the wife's mother. It was advertised as brand new so asked to reserve it. When we turned up and they brough the goods out, it was immediately obvious that it was used - marks, scratches and scuffs, then tried to convince us that...

Torx, hopefully.

I see no point in arguing with people who assure me that they know it all and that I know nothing. I shall leave this discussion to 'experts' alone and wish you well with your EVs in your sure belief that they will prevent any further climate change and will reduce CO2 in the atmosphere...

Pollution, yes. However, countries such as India, China and America are doing far worse than us. Climate change, no. Climate change is a naturally occurring series of events and has been going on for thousands, if not millions of years. We cannot stop it, however many EVs the fools buy!

Can you prove that man is contributing to climate change? More to the point, are you claiming that if we all buy EVs, climate change will not happen?

Did man contribute to the end of the last ice age? I don't think they had motor cars of any description then!

All of this worry about climate change is perhaps understandable. The changes being made and suggested to attempt to avoid climate change are rather pointless. Climate change does occur periodically, over hundreds and thousands of years as we are fully aware: the ice ages, for example. The...

Climate crisis! Is it getting too hot or getting too cold? To be honest, I haven't really noticed.

I will never buy an EV. I am 71 and by the time they try to ban ICEs (which they will never be able to do!) I shall not be here.

Good heavens! Do they burst into flames like EVs do?