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?
Martin