Let there be (working) light!

Recently, I turned on my living room light, and it started to hiss and spit and make popping noises and sparks. Needless to say, I promptly turned it off! Removing the globe (long dead) from the socket that had been causing the trouble just moved the problem on to the next globe. Time to get a new light fitting.

I had been planning to spend a while finding just the right fitting for the room and updating the light when my budget was in better shape. Suddenly the issue was a bit urgent, so I went with the first reasonably affordable fitting I could find that I liked. Fortunately, while I am not deeply in love with the new fitting, I quite like it, and can certainly live with it for a while. And it has a great feature - it works!

Here is the old light.

And here is the new light.