On 2006-09-06 11:50:43 +0100, Huge said:

On 2006-09-05, Andy Hall wrote:
On 2006-09-05 15:45:51 +0100, "Kev" said:


Dave Fawthrop wrote:


IME they do not fail at all, well *very* rarely. After running the whole
house on low energy bulbs except for a few long flourescents, for mumble
years I have last week had my first failure, a 23 watt bulb at the top of
the stairs, it just stopped working. Highly chuffed with the long life
of these lamps, IME well in excess of the advertised 10,000 hours.
--

Just out of interest, how did you dispose of the old bulb as you aren't
supposed to bin them but there again I am hardly likely to all the way
to the dump with a broken low enegy bulb.

Kevin

Oh no you must, regardless of how much fuel is used. It's part of the
"eco" thing.

*applause* And I thought it was just me.

Don't forget you must wash out your empty cans and bottles with hot
water & detergent, too....

No it isn't

I don't mind doing reasonably eco things. However, I draw the line at
those that

- Are political correctness for the sake of it.

- Are unsound and obviously so,

- Cost a lot of time to do. If it's that important then the council
should deal with it - I pay them a lot of money to do so.