Quote from: klondike on Today at 11:21:17 AMI like that one but I also like a lot of the others too. I suppose they all remind me of years gone by. Hard to pick a favourite.

How did you get the You Tube telly and not just a link  ?

I've just switched off Norad Santa Tracker     My grandson is so excited, but worried about the reindeer's legs because they've got so many miles to cover.   
I'm going to pour myself a Baileys now and hope I don't drop the bottle 

You could probably buy a lovely led one which has a little remote control which would enable to dim it or change the colour.

While washing her kitchen floor
Mavis heard a knock at her door
With mop in hand she went to look
A Jehovah Witness holding a book
Did she risk damnation as she swore?

Mavis hid behind a chair
He would never see her there

While washing her kitchen floor
Mavis heard a knock at her door
With mop in hand she went to look
A Jehovah Witness ,holding a book

Quote from: Mups on Today at 05:21:40 PMThe  young girl serving seemed to have even less idea than me.   She read the writing on the tube and then said - "I don't know what any of that means."   
My reply was could she get someone who does then!
Just then the biggest bloke I have ever seen comes sauntering along behind the counter.  He looked totally bored,  only half awake,  and longing to go home.   No smile,  didn't even look at me, just grunted something to the girl and wandered off again.
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She also confused me by saying something about I'm not to forget to take out the Charger before I change bulbs?   

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 11:28:11 PMDon't expect highly skilled advice from people working in retail either.

Flourescent lights are typically higher colour temperature than we have for lounge lighting in the UK. Would probably have been fine for a kitchen though as probably similar to what you had.

Colour temperature refers to what temperate something would need to be to produce light of the colour you see when it is turned on.. Heat something up and it starts dull red going more towards yellow then even white as temperature rises. Tungsten bulbs are quite yellow and what we have got used to at home.

While washing her kitchen floor
Mavis heard a knock at the door

Quote from: klondike on Today at 11:25:13 AMAll that stuff is for fluorescents and what might be wrong with yours apart from the tube.

 Forget all that and just buy an LED tube, Blame Dex for bringing it up.

I finally felt brave enough to fix the light myself,  so,  armed with the duff light bulb,  off I goes through all the traffic to Screwfix.   

The  young girl serving seemed to have even less idea than me.   She read the writing on the tube and then said - "I don't know what any of that means."    
My reply was could she get someone who does then!
Just then the biggest bloke I have ever seen comes sauntering along behind the counter.  He looked totally bored,  only half awake,  and longing to go home.   No smile,  didn't even look at me, just grunted something to the girl and wandered off again.

It turned out in the end, that they only had a bright white one, which I don't want because they hurt my eyes.
The one the electrician fitted a few weeks ago was a nice soft whitey/peachy colour and is much easier on the eye.   So I came away with nothing.

Next stop was Wickes.   They were closed. 

One more place to try on the way home was a place called West End Wallpapers who do a lot of DIY stuff,  so went there next.   Once more, the best they could offer was a 'soft white',   but from the picture on the box it didn't look very 'soft'  to me,  and she informed me   "They don't do anything fancy."  She also confused me by saying something about I'm not to forget to take out the Charger before I change bulbs?   (Hadn't a clue what she meant).
There was no point buying something then find I couldn't use it,   or I couldn't install it, so I thanked her, and left.

Cooking by candle light after all.      Thanks for trying to help though. 
  

Ethel put on her frilly negligee
Father Christmas would be passing her way
Santa spotted her from his sleigh
Luckily the reindeer had plenty of hay
Hopefully enough to last out his stay

Two fat pigeons fighting on the fence 
The situation looked quite tense 
Fred wasn't sure whether
The fat one lost most feathers
Or where the thinner one went

Ethel put on her frilly negligee 
Father Christmas would be passing her way