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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, those are exactly what we have, except that most British lightbulbs have a "bayonet", rather than a "screw" fitting.
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we used to have those "bayonet" light bulbs here but we switched to screw type ones years ago. i still have one fixture in my appart which takes that kind. you can only find them in hardware stores now, i should probably stockpile those (because i'm not sure i'm up to rewiring a wall fixture, although maybe i could, since i've made lamps before). all my other lamps are the compact fluorescent "low energy" bulbs except for one which is a halogen with a dimmer switch (which i wired myself, when i first moved here, because in winter it was very dark in that room and it was depressing, i wanted a bright light. and i needed a lot of light for painting).
i think it's a bit ironic that people are being made to use the compact fluroescents which have mercury in them, since mercury thermometers were banned several years ago and you can't buy them any more. at the time there was a campaign to retire them and you could turn in your old mercury thermometer at a pharmacy and get a free alcohol (?) one. now most of them are the electric "in the ear" type with an lcd display, although actually i do still have my mercury one.
i don't really mind them, most of them time ; they give a colder light, which doesn't bother me because i find the yellow light of incandescents to be a bit too yellow ; it seems a bit sad and wintery to me for some reason (i realise that makes little sense since yellow is a warm colour, but natural light tends to be a bit blue-ish, especially in summertime, so i prefer blue-ish light bulbs because it seems more like daylight). but if you use a coloured lampshade you can easily change the colour. i have a japanese paper lantern shade in my bedroom, the paper is off-white and it makes the light a bit warmer, and on my bedside lamp i made a shade out of pinkish tissue paper which makes a nice soft light, good for getting ready to fall asleep. i think i'd like to try led bulbs but for the moment they are still really expensive to purchase.
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I think we should just be made to strap an LED to our forehead - you only need light where you're looking, why waste energy illuminating the whole room?
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