Fail number one - for about 6 months now the halogen downlighter in the pla yroom has had only two working bulbs. And try as I might, with the supplie d sucker and with a more advance sucker tool, I could not remove them. Tri ed looping a length of string around the back and pulling, and was fearful of pulling the fitting off the ceiling. SWMBO's patience ran out, so I too k the fitting down and tried again with all my might. Then, just as an aft erthought, tried rotating them...doh!! Ah well, got them changed after all .
Fail number two - bought a eyeball-style downlighter for a E27 fitting bulb to replace one of the same which had cracked internally. Spent 30 minutes perplexed about how the cabling worked, as the diagram suggested I just in sert the cables into holes, no screws or anything, and then secure with a c lamp. Didn't work when on my own, then with eldest son and armed with rubb er gloves tried shoving the cables in deeper (concerned I might be making t he whole body of the light live). Didn't work. Went downstairs, tried to find similar lights on sale, convinced myself that there were missing screw ed fittings from inside the light, determined to replace it at B&Q today. SWMBO suggested she wanted to try too, as the instructions were quite clear . Went through same process again, with me protesting that this clearly co uldn't work. It did.
Not really gone up in SWMBOs opinion as far as personal competence is conce rned.