On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 at 11:58:38, Fleetie
wrote in uk.legal :

I read in a newspaper on Sunday or Monday that sale of the above would
be illegal in the UK after the coming Tuesday.

So I stocked up on some 40W SES bulbs for my lava lamp in Sainsbury's
last night.

But is this true? There are plenty of applications for incandescent
bulbs that are not simply designed for being the main light sources in
rooms.

To return to lava lamps: Are all such lamps effectively living on
borrowed time after Tuesday, so that when no more bulbs can be bought
for them, they become useless? I like my lamp; it provides just the
right level of glow at night in an otherwise dark room, save for the
TV and computer or whatever.

I also have a small clip-on lamp on a goose-neck that takes a small,
wire-ended incandescent bulb rated about 25W. Are those to become
unavailable too?

If any of this is true, where exactly do the boundaries of what will
and will not be legal lie?

IMO energy-saving bulbs aren't all they're cracked up to be, anyway.

They might not actually *fail* for a long time, but they fade over time,
shortening their useful life that way.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham