... to use 3 core (ie, brown/blue/earth) flex where the earth is used as a live conductor? (With appropriate red markings)?
The twilight sensor on my outside lighting has failed, and I don't really want to reuse the 20 y/o wiring to it, nor do I want to buy a couple of meters of 3 core (no earth required; the sensor isn't earthed). Last time I just used 2 pieces of 2 core flex in parallel & marked one of them up as the switched live, but that's a nasty kludge, too.