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The main light bulb blew in our living room earlier this week. Nothing unusual there – it happens. Except have you tried to buy a dimmable, bayonet fitted, pearl finish, low energy, 100W equivalent bulb? If anyone has found one, I’d be interested to know more because, for the life of me, I can’t find a modern replacement.<\/p>\n

Luckily, <\/span>our local independent hardware store<\/a> (no relation) still stock “old skool” lightbulbs, so we’ve stocked up. \u00a0I like to be more energy efficient where it makes sense but the major retailers who have stopped stocking these bulbs have done so because <\/span>they were lobbied by government<\/del>\u00a0the bulbs are inefficient – except all that heat they give off is not going to waste… it just means the central heating doesn’t need to work so hard, surely?<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, I’d like to save money, just like the next man, but\u00a0have you tried to navigate the maze of light bulbs in the average DIY store recently<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it looks as though the dimmer switch has failed too as the new bulbs won’t fully illuminate in the living room (but are fine elsewhere)… that’ll be a job for me this weekend then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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