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Adele Elgood

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A lot of artists and crafts people use daylight bulbs nowadays so I would like to tell you what happened to one of mine. I have the use of a few energy-saving daylight bulbs in lamps and the main ceiling fitting of my workroom. One day I was happily painting and smelt smoke which I thought was coming from outside the house. The smell grew stronger and I saw wisps of smoke curling about my head. The overhead lamp was smouldering which, of course I turned off right away. So far all my other lamps are ok and I don't know if anybody else has experienced this before. I will happily go on using my daylights but I am very careful now not to leave the room without turning them off - even when I am popping downstairs to make a cup of tea.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Could be a timely warning there - I would suggest you get your wiring checked, though, if you haven't. That's not supposed to happen (obviously) and in your place I'd get a little man in.

Adele Elgood

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That's a good point although I have had no trouble since this happened which was some time ago. It was the oldest surviving bulb (at the time). I just hope that this is not what happens when they finally give up the ghost!

Michael Robinson

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I've just bought a new daylight table lamp so I will heed your advice Adele. So far I have found it to be great and wish I had bought one long ago!

Adele Elgood

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Yes they are wonderful Margaret. I use the bulbs in three lamps plus the ceiling fixture. Perhaps it was faulty. There seems no fault with the lamp itself though. Not sure if you remember when they first brought out the ordinary energy saving bulbs, a few exploded. Perhaps they have perfected them now. Still always wise to err on the side of caution. Honestly Robert - what little man? I'm the one with tool kit in my house!!

Peter Davison

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Where electricity is concerned I always think of the little rhyme we were taught at junior school: Little man with pair of pliers Playing with electric wires Lightening flashes, thunder crashes Little man reduced to ashes!

Adele Elgood

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Glad to see you are in a cheerful mood Peter! Our rhyme in Drama Lesson to teach us how to talk "proper" was: Boy on Tiger Smile of Joy Smile on Tiger Goodbye Boy! No nothing to do with electricity but your rhyme brought it to mind. Obviously I learnt very important things at school!!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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A qualified little man, or woman, Adele: I belong to the era when man was said to embrace woman - tough luck on him if he tries that today, but there we are. I don't mind a little DIY, but the one thing I avoid is electricity, once having suffered a mild, though unpleasant, electric shock.

Adele Elgood

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Only pulling your leg Robert and I too avoid electricity! And being the same era as you, I enjoy men embracing women (if you know what I mean).

Adele Elgood

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A good warning Syd.
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When I first started work as an electrical design engineer I was soon put in my place for calling an electric lamp a bulb - bulbs are what you plant in the garden I was told. Recently I was pulled up for calling them lamps - lamps are the complete unit and bulbs are what you put in them I was told. In a state of confusion I looked it up on Google and the consensus (and it is only a consensus) seems to be that bulb only refers to the rounded bit at the end of certain types of lamps - the correct term is lamp as in incandescent lamp for example. I shall now take great Victor Meldrew pleasure in having a go at anyone who calls them bulbs. By the way I love the poetry.

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Adele Elgood

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I am even more confused than when I woke up this morning Michael - and that's an achievement in itself!!
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