This is on the track over the top of the Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. An Honour System for apples:

http://flickr.com/photos/kenkilfedder/2353697561/in/set-72157601920912837/

Those in London can view a No. 2 Difference Engine in the Science Museum. It's been there since they built it in the mid-nineties if I remember rightly. They also have a reconstructed Analytical Engine, and a copy of Henry Babbage's Analytical Engine Mill.

This makes me wanna read the Gibson/Sterling scifi penny-dreadful mashup "The Difference Engine" again.

More here: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinestuff/museum_objects/computing.aspx

Here's another. Don't hit it too hard!

http://www.kenkil.plus.com/IPS/

Lots of signs for public showers are much more dalekoid than that one. Example:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7322084@N02/1349759391/in/set-72157601920912837/

Here is the ultimate source for the story. A statement in parliament by Lord Alton of Liverpool. He claims to have actually spoken with the High Court Judge who "annulled" the "marriage".

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2007-12-10a.91.0&s=twins#g101.2

Said he:

I was recently in conversation with a High Court judge who was telling me of a case he had dealt with. This did not involve in vitro fertilisation; it involved the normal birth of twins who were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents. They were never told that they were twins. They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation.

Misleading the House of Lords in this way would be a pretty serious matter. I wonder if he'll be disciplined.

Remember these these ones?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/sets/72157594323393196/

A good deal more thoughtful, and covering a range of potential futuristic hazards.

Baz - I know what I'm doing. The seven dictionaries wiki refers to probably do too. None of the other alternative terms for the UK, Rep. of Ireland, Isle of Man taken together, etc are as unambiguous or widely-used.

Now get this back on topic - tell us something about kettles. Mine has a kind of flat element entirely hidden in the bottom, and it rests on a kind of base unit that the mains cable runs into.

Does water have to be at boiling point or at 100°C? 'Cuz boiling point varies with altitude.

Just about every hotel and B&B in the British Isles has a kettle, mugs, a dish of tea bags, instant coffee and sugar sachets and individual UHT milks.

Lack of this facility in foreign hotels is another tribulation faced by brits abroad.