On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:45:00 +0100 Dave Plowman (News) wrote :
Did you ask them for a pattress? If not, how would you know.

I did when I first arrived in London to be met with blank looks.

It's certainly been used here for 40 years, though my first recollection
was to described the moulded round plate that you put under a batten
lampholder when not on a fireproof surface (per regs change mentioned
here previously)

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