This will make you think!

A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward.

This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward.

Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite.

This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant.

Make sure you read as well as listen…forward and backward

This video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old.

The contest was titled "u @ 50"  by  AARP.

When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause.

So simple and yet so brilliant.

Take a minute and watch it.

Does this 'listening government' ever listen to each other?

Starting this blog with a rant is probably not very sensible but bear with me and I will try and balance rants with laughs. Of course, all my rants are based upon the information fed me by the media so don't hesitate to correct me if I am misinformed.

Last month was one of those rare occasions when I couldn't resist 'phoning in' to Julian Worricker of You & Yours, Radio 4 to put in my fourpenneth about sustainable energy and some joined up thinking.

I proposed that the 50,000 (recently increased to 100,000) new build homes a year, that this government has promised, should ALL include solar panels (photo voltaic) not only to provide their power needs but also to feedback into the National Grid. This would soon equate to a Nuclear Power Station and the mass production would substantially reduce the cost (and promised subsidies from the tax payer) of providing solar panels for existing homes.

. . . and, why isn't every new streetlight powered by solar power?

Surely a far better use of the experienced engineering skills we have in the country rather than subsidising the cost of manufacturing vehicles which consume more energy and produce more CO² during manufacture than that saved by running a new car on tap water. How crazy are we, the tax payer, to pay £2,000 for people to scrap their 10 year old cars (like mine) in order to 'consume' a new car which (look out of your window) will spend 95% of it's time stationary? We should be incentivising drivers to 'keep and repair' their vehicles to reduce CO² emissions and generate employment for mechanics and to 'share' vehicles.

It was interesting that Lord Hunt's excuse was that "Power Stations are designed to provide energy to individuals NOT to have energy provided by individuals". Sounds to me that the solution is in his response - solve the existing Power Station problem first.