Ben Griffiths

Most people don't know that between 1968 and 1976, the uk converted 40 million appliances in 14 million homes away from 'town gas' to methane. It was a huge undertaking that was state-led, centrally planned and free. Thousands of engineers were trained at a dozen ad hoc dedicated training schools. All in the age before computers were common. A way bigger deal than the Y2K work that gets cited a lot. I had relatives that became plumbers because of this transition. We could do it again.

Youngest came round yesterday. He's been playing Wishbringer all week using my site https://planedrift.app . I am beyond delighted that he likes these games. However, he told me I needed to add a cyan theme because the 'unc colors hurt my eyes, bro'.

• the gaslighter - moves your furniture by a tiny amount every time you're out so you're just a bit unsettled all the time
• the anthropologist - hides behing houseplants and narrates your life like a David Attenborough documentary
• the nordic noir - is convinced that you're involved in some terrible crime but must investigate you without you getting suspicious

Maybe it would be good if it could do the laundry, though. like

• escape room - every day it hides your house keys and leaves cryptic clues you have to solve before you go to work
• the foley bot - watches what you do and adds outsized sound effects
• the ghost car - gets dressed beside you at the speed of your personal best getting dressed time ...

If I was a green (which I am) and my surname was Denyer, it would be very hard not to name one of my children 'Climate Change'.