TV licences are a British thing, the licence fee funds the BBC, which doesn't have advertisements so has to get money another way. Over here, everyone has to buy a TV licence, black and white used to be quite cheap but a colour licence cost more and dad hated spending money, lol!

I'd be too scared to use anything powered by gas O.O

My mum was the youngest of 6 surviving children. Now only her oldest brother is left.