I have now found an internet site selling all varieties of incandescents,
including 60 watt pearl, so I shall be stocking up post haste. I have also
just started trying out the halogen versions of traditional light bulbs,
which still seem to make it into the eco-bollox "book of energy savers",
even though they only consume a few watts less than their equivalent
light-output 'traditional' tungsten cousins. Thus far, I am impressed. I
now have a 70 watt actual, 100 watt equivalent, fitted to my hallway main
light fixture. It is very bright, very easy (for me anyway) to see by, and
has a good colour spectrum, not in the slightest way offensive to my eyes,
unlike the CFLs, which no matter how much anyone says that *they* can't
tell
the difference with, *I* can ... d :-\

Don't expect it to last very. If you don't run it long enough to engage the
halogen cycle, the bulb will burn out faster than a conventional
incandescent.

Several weeks ago I said I'd switched to all fluorescents. I was wrong. The
stairwell and hallway lamps are all incandescent. (Almost all of them are
still working after 10 years.) Fixtures that are turned on only briefly
should be regular incandescents -- or LEDs! Other types are not appropriate.