[McMurdo]

My grandma used the end of her walking stick to turn off the MK dolly-switched wall socket to control the Bush tv. The on-off-vol control was too stiff with too small a knob for her arthritic fingers to operate. I still turn stuff off at the wall socket, the kitchen tv, the PC & monitor, the scanner, soldering iron, phone charger etc. I love switched sockets and when I moved here I changed all the unswitched ones to switched. I can leave the plugs in with leads tidily routed out of the way, and just flick them off knowing they're not idling in standby, cooking their cheap chinese SMPSU capacitors or wearing out the 220K bootstrap resistors.