Crap hotel wall light switch

At least it's double pole.

okay, but why did Toby need a bath?

Owain

Fleas.

Probably caught by playing with the hedgehogs at night that live in my hedgehog safe part of the garden.

That'll do it.

Owain

I recall many many years ago seeing a toggle switch used on a wall light which was hanging off the wall on its wires and on the back it clearly said, not for mains use. I do think that bodgit and run Electricians have always been active. It was lucky the toggle was some kind of plastic.

In one of the Canary islands self catering chalets I stayed in it was apparently OK to twisst wires together to lengthen them using pvc tape to cover the mess, or indeed to leave whiskers of wire sticking out of the bottom of two pin europlugs which were not shrouded. It amazed me how, in the 1980s people were not electrocuted over there. How their houses never burned down eludes me. Often you could see the locals ironing with the iron plugged into a light socket. Brian

Not usually, Fleas are pretty species specific. They may bit people or dogs, but they don't really like the taste unless its hedgehog, but I do believe Fox fleas can be transferred to Dogs as they are similar species. Brian

Brian Gaff (Sofa) has brought this to us :

Not that much different to here, in the distant past.

Are the 1960s the distant past? That's when I still routinely used a

Robin formulated on Sunday :

Most would see the 1960's as the distant past, certainly now well into the antique era.

At a recent pub quiz I was looked to by my team-mates to answer questions about anything prior to about 2000!

We won the close-run quiz by identifying Glenn Miller playing "American Patrol"

Just about everyone is a Goldfish nowadays!

I can remember seeing those light-bulb extendered BC bakelite adapters with two obtuse two pin sockets in my father's junk-box. IIRC some had a little pull switch. Now there's sophisticated!

PA

Also, for some odd reason, my parents had an old device that had a bakelite and metal bayonet connector on one end (to go into a lampholder); a wider cylindrical body (part of the same bakelite moulding), containing a transformer; and a pink, domed cap on the end, with a small (probably about 9mm), low-voltage, bulb-holder for a screw-in bulb, in the middle of it. Why on earth would anyone want to replace a proper mains light-bulb with a bulb from a battery torch?

I never saw it in use, it was just in a box of electrical items, under the spare bed.

Child's night-light.

Night-light which gave more light than a neon.

Yep, they were essential in the days when many homes were lucky to have lights in every room and often only one socket in the entire place :-)

Our first house, wired in 1945 had 4 power sockets (one in each bedroom & one in the kitchen) and one 5A socket in the big room downstairs.

charles has brought this to us :

I remember a railway property house, which well into the 60's only ever had gas lighting. It was demolished in the 1970's.

IIRC 400~500 watts in the early 1960s for those of us for whom "steam iron" meant a wet hankie.

But using 3-way adapters in the light sockets did go hand in hand with learning how to rewire a fuse.

We use to stretch to a damp towel?

Those were the days .....

Sorry, tea towel.