There's nothing like a new fluoro to show you how shabby a room really is.

We've known for months that the light in the kitchen would need replacing sooner rather than later, but in the past few days it's been noticeably failing. So I got a new tube today and - because I get vertigo from standing on chairs - the cubs' father installed it.
Bam!
From perpetual twilight to sunshine bright in a split second! Pity I was looking at the light fixture at the time. <wince>
It's now so bright in the kitchen the spiders have run for the shadows. It's so bright, in fact, that I keep having to stop myself turning the light off cos it feels like daytime and of course you don't need the lights on then...