What would you add to the Blue Peter time capsule?

I recently rediscovered a stash of 28p first class stamps in the bottom of a box of stationery. While not quite on the same level of financial reward, the feeling was akin to discovering forgotten Apple shares bought in the 80s. My elation was arguably only 30% of that which a resident of 2050 would experience on lifting the lid to find your last suggestion, and as such I think it has to go in.

I like this suggestion, william – although I’m concerned about products like the Toblerone, which may have identical packaging that contains nothing but a triangle at each end as struts by then.

I was nine when they first buried this capsule, and will be 61 when it resurfaces. If we consider how much things have changed in only the last decade (the dawn of the smartphone, social media etc.) I think the contents will offer plenty to surprise my sexuagenarian self about how things were in childhood.

I, for one, welcome our new constitutionalist insect overlords.

Thanks for the injection of positivity, John. Fully on board with this, although I fear we may need rather a lot of sticky-back plastic to mend some of our current problems!

Passing on debt to future generations is certainly a time-honoured tradition – doing so as a joke might be a little too real for some!

When things change as much as they have, I think there’s naturally a need to adjust – part of which requires rethinking our next steps. Let’s hope we can do so with the best of intentions and not out of our worst instincts. Perhaps we should write down our ideas for how 2050 should or could be and pop them in the capsule, so we can evaluate how we got on (either with a chuckle or a note of alarm).

If I can’t understand breakfast biscuits now, I’m not sure what chance the people of 2050 will have. I am intrigued to know how well they’d survive, though. There’s a niche community on YouTube that opens sealed ration packs from World War II and tries the food – perhaps there will be people live-hologramming themselves opening packs of vintage belVita in 2050!

Finds like that are brilliant. Sauna technology has come on some way in the last 47 years, and you can now get one for significantly less. Can’t say the same for loose leaf tea!

I stand corrected on the tea – perhaps my loose-leaf tastes have just got a bit fancy. You won’t get a decent FTGFOP for £1.09!

In a former life I worked for a high-end tea company, so perhaps there’s a separate convo in tea myths and expert preparation tips somewhere down the line…

As some of you may have discovered, sometimes FTGFOP it is used as an abbreviation for ‘far too good for other people’, although I wouldn’t be so snobbish myself.

wavechange – that’s actually not far from the truth. Tea is sorted by passing it through different grades of sieve, and the tea in British teabags is generally ‘fannings’, or the lowest grade tea dust that falls out of the bottom.

John – you can get a nice Darjeeling of equivalent quality for a lot less elsewhere. The leaves being largely unbroken is the crucial bit.

To avoid getting too far off the topic – if I were to choose some tea to preserve in this particular circumstance, it would have to be a nice oolong. It might actually improve with the aging.