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Autumn is fast approaching, and with it comes Halloween. Don’t be scared by the modern technology that is LED lighting – embrace it with its massive advantages.Have you ever heard of ‘phantom load’ or ‘vampire power’? These scary terms refer to the energy that is wasted by appliances being left on standby mode. Sometimes it’s because of a digital clock, sometimes it’s down to them still being conn …

Some people love it and some people hate it, but every year without fail, we turn back out clocks on the last Sunday of October. While we gain an hour of morning sunlight during the summer months, we lose the same amount of light from our long winter evenings.Whether or not you’re fond of the custom, one thing that’s for sure is that, for many, it heralds the beginning of winter and increased leve …

 Forecasts have promised some excellent weather over the course of the next week with temperatures reaching 20 degrees in some parts of Britain. This couldn’t have come at a better time with the half-term break in full swing and as it may be the last unseasonably mild weather for Britain this autumn it is well worth taking advantage of it now. According to The Huffington Post, most people wil …

The familiarity we feel for screwing in a light bulb wouldn't even be possible without the well-known E27 fitting, which is more commonly referred to as the Edison Screw Cap. This type of fitting has made changing a light bulb relatively hassle-free for over a century, since it was first developed by Thomas Edison in 1909, and is one of the most easily recognised and enduring fe …