What are you doing right now?

[Jurek]

Friend of mine moved into a house and discovered the Edwardian-style bell-pull operated an impressive mercury switch from the days before health & safety.  Bonus.

Late to this party, but somewhere, in amongst my Dymo ^TM labelled drawers, I have a mercury tilt switch which used to activate the under-bonnet lights of my first car when the bonnet was lifted.

Unless I'm in line to make a post in the "Today I learned..." thread, that doesn't sound like something that came as original factory-fitted equipment.

D'you know I honestly am struggling to remember, but it was a 1972 car with electric windows on all four doors - quite advanced for the day. Vauxhall Viscount 3.3

[andrewc]

"mercury tilt switch" combined with "car" sounds like the type of string that should trigger Echelon ....

[andrewc]

Lying down feeling tired after clearing some overgrown rose bushes & small trees in my parents front garden.

[chrisbainbridge]

Out for Christmas lunch on my own. Suddenly got a free afternoon and our local really good restaurant had a table for 1.