Birthday Breakfast

Perfection on a plate: French Toast ('Eggy Bread', and probably many other names for the same thing) with a swirl of Bovril!

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French Toast - Wikipedia

French Toast - BBC Good Food

Eggy Bread - Jamie Oliver

Eggy Bread - BBC Food

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Bovril - Wikipedia

Bovril - Unilever

UK TV licencing - useful information

The UK has a TV Licensing Authority, which collects money for the BBC. 

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/ 

'TV Licensing' is a trade mark of the BBC and is used under licence by a number of companies contracted by the BBC to administer the collection of the television licence fee and enforcement of the television licensing system - chiefly Capita Business Services Ltd. 

The BBC is a public authority in respect of its television licensing functions and retains overall responsibility for the TV License.

The UK Government web-pages on TV Licensing:

https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence

Do you need a TV License?

https://www.licenceplus.co.uk/tv_licensing

Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom

Here are some useful quotes:

• "Members of the public who do not require a television licence are under no obligation to inform TV Licensing of the fact." Shaun Woodward M.P. , Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, May 2006 https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-05-15c.69812.h

•  Lord Carder of Barnes (Cm 6474, March 2005) “The BBC has informed me that it does not have any legal right to demand that people without a television receiver contact them”.

• Department of Culture, Media and Sport report (First Report, HC 82 2004--005, 16 December 2004) states “ While payment of the licence fee by households which actually have a TV is a legal obligation, we remind the BBC that the finances it receives from the licence are a privilege. The Corporation should use a less menacing style of advertising campaign."

• "TV Licensing implied right of access is withdrawn" This is far from straightforward, with many differing opinions and interpretations. See:
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Withholding%20implied%20right%20of%20access.htm
http://info.fmotl.com/RemovalOfAccessRights.htm

Bell's Theorem - an interesting experiment with polarising filters...

It isn't often that you fins a video that uses very simply available materials to show an experiment that leads to the fine detail of quantum theory, and the current limit of what we know about the universe. Well, this short YouTube video:

   Bell's Theorem

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

does exactly this in less than 18 minutes! It is called: 'Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox', and I had never heard of Bell's Theorem before. But I definitely do now!

You may need to watch the video a few times to get your head around it...

Amazing!

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

https://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/BellsTheorem/BellsTheorem.html

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/

And in case you missed it the first time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

Tinker and Tanker - a paper craft archive

Apparently not Richard Scarry's most popular work, but one of my favourites.

Here's my personal archive of the 'cut out and assemble' paper-craft that got made ages ago, and I re-found inside a cardboard box recently, and captured in electronic form before I threw them away. The fun is in the making, not the keeping, it seems, and whilst I could have put them back in the box for another few years, I decided to move them on.

And yes, I know I should have done a panorama! (Wise after the event, and all that...)