aj, stu, duely noted

chip, i don't want to chop the plug as it's one of those circit braker plugs, hence being moulded to the wires at both ends, and no, i cannot route it a different way otherwise i would have, hence the post about finding something that would fit through the letter box
why buy something "safe" like this and then cut it to make life easier? it defeats the whole point of spending money on somethng that has been designed with small kids in mind to prevent them from jumping around and eletrocuting themselves if something were to go wrong

i shouldn't "HAVE" to explain this all because then i get tagged with "too long a post to read, not bothered" and yet it all seems to turn out like this for virtually every point i make

too many threads now seem to take on a sinister sort of "look, this guys an easy target, let's all join in and hopefully no one will pick on me"

you know i'm right but it's very hard to point outanother thread as the turn around time on them is so short from starting to falling off the end of the page

i don't want to get anyone into trouble because, on the whole, i get on with the vast majority of posters here and can take a joke when it's appropriate and can see the funny side of things in most cases, but not in this case

i'm sure that face to face it would have been fine, but the internet is a strange place and things tend to get lost in translation