Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Monday, 15 June 2015

Light Years Ahead

Buying light bulbs has always been tricky – clear or pearl, small or standard, screw or bayonet, spot, candle or globe – and now it is even harder with low energy, halogen or LED to consider, not to mention trying to gauge how many lumens are needed (watts being passé), so today in Wilkinson’s even though I knew the shape and fitting needed I still stared at the shelves for a good while doing a mental cost benefit analysis between the halogen and the more expensive to buy but cheaper to run LED; for my bedside lamp, on less than an hour a day, the payback was over six years, but what really put me off was realising its projected life of 20,000 hours would see me off with a couple of decades to spare.

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