Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

New lightbulbs are pants even if you are not reading. Last night Dh was shaving while I was in the bath and we were giggling because at the end he checked his face in the mirror by candle light as the light was so rubbish.

They are.... I love low energy lightbulbs, but you also need a full complement of proper lights. Only this morning I was showering with my eyes shut for the first minute as the low energy lightbulb was too dim for me to see what I was doing, so I figured if I shut my eyes for a minute it'd seem brighter

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

...it's pretty MSE as our entire flat is now basically lit by the TV. if we need to read something we can open the fridge.

And if you're proper MSE then opening the fridge will also heat your room, so it's a double bonus. I too use the fridge light to read the back of packets in order to be able to prepare food in the dark.

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

I've never heard of those - they look like proper jobs!!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

They are.... I love low energy lightbulbs, but you also need a full complement of proper lights. Only this morning I was showering with my eyes shut for the first minute as the low energy lightbulb was too dim for me to see what I was doing, so I figured if I shut my eyes for a minute it'd seem brighter

I do that too. And the....if I go outside without putting my coat on it will be warmer when I come in.


Speaking of warmth, I'm not, lol.


Frost didn't clear fro.m the south side of the yard today, and the troughs have a thin coat of ice still on them.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i used to just wait for EDF / british gas etc etc to send me (unsolicited) a load of free ones in the post. they seemed to have stopped doing that now which is disappointing.

The reason they did this was flawed and a waste of Govt money. The Govt put up money for energy firms to do the whole "green thing" - and they simply decided they'd send out unsolicited lightbulbs. Then the Govt twigged this was a rubbish idea so it was stopped.

An energy company has been criticised for sending out millions of low energy light bulbs to meet its target under a household energy cutting scheme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8437778.stm

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Do people really still make comments to women about it being the wrong time of the month? It was phrased worse than that and directed at me. I find that disgusting.

Yes they do - everywhere and all the time.... I've even heard it mentioned by a diner on Come Dine With Me on the telly in recent months, thus proving it's all the time/everywhere if it can slip onto the TV so easily and not be cut by production.

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

yeah the energy saving ones are naff if you want to read anything (unless you remember to switch them on an hour before you start reading).

most of our current flat is lit by those horrible little spotlights that developers these days seem to go weak at the knees for. nowadays when they blow up (one goes about every 15 minutes, it seems), i just don't bother to replace them. it's pretty MSE as our entire flat is now basically lit by the TV. if we need to read something we can open the fridge.

:rotfl: that gave me a good giggle!

i specified no downlights in this new house for your reason. Prople love them but they never work and are expensive to run when they do, is that right? H went out and bought two fittings for the kitchen that take four of the same GU10 bulbs and, you can guess, two have blown already and they've barely been up there a month. I like lamps and wall lights. We have more lamps than I have available surfaces at the moment.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

:rotfl: that gave me a good giggle!

i specified no downlights in this new house for your reason. Prople love them but they never work and are expensive to run when they do, is that right? H went out and bought two fittings for the kitchen that take four of the same GU10 bulbs and, you can guess, two have blown already and they've barely been up there a month. I like lamps and wall lights. We have more lamps than I have available surfaces at the moment.

What about in kitchens?


We have some old dairy bottles I might make pendant lamps from...oversized of course, but apparently that is not enough.

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

:rotfl: that gave me a good giggle!

i specified no downlights in this new house for your reason. Prople love them but they never work and are expensive to run when they do, is that right? H went out and bought two fittings for the kitchen that take four of the same GU10 bulbs and, you can guess, two have blown already and they've barely been up there a month. I like lamps and wall lights. We have more lamps than I have available surfaces at the moment.

in my last place we had three of them lighting the kitchen on a light fitting hanging from the ceiling. these blew all the time. if all three were working, then one would blow (at random, not always the same one) within a week.

in order to change a single bulb you had to get up on a step ladder, remove, and then of course replace, three stupid screws. on one occasion one of the other bulbs blew within 10 minutes of me replacing the one that had gone, which of course amused me greatly as i had just finished putting the ladder away in the cellar.

i'd rather have lit the place with 1,000 tealight candles, it would have been less effort.

you probably end up paying more for the bulbs than for the bloody electricity to run them.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

What about in kitchens?

flourescent strip light for me - don't care if it looks awful, at least you can see!