Sunday 12 April 2020

Sunday 12 April – Random Witterings from Home #8

I’m going really random in today’s witterings. The subject is this stumpy little lamppost:


You may have noticed it in my previous comparison photo of the patio:


Significantly more progress has been made on the patio since this snap was taken, with Mick joining in with the daily scrubbing sessions.

It’s a tatty eyesore on our patio, in direct line of sight between the kitchen window and the lawn.

As we were scrubbing the patio yesterday Mick suggested that we should remove it. An excellent idea, but with a fundamental problem that links to the reason why (as useful as an outside light would be) we never use it: we have never found a switch for it.

“Surely you can trace the wiring?” I hear you think. Unfortunately, not easily. The armoured wire runs under the patio, in a direction and to a place unknown. There must be a junction box somewhere (because it doesn’t terminate in the consumer unit), and we’ve a hunch as to where that may be, but it’s so inaccessible that leaving the lamp standing is the route of least resistance.

The only (rather unsatisfactory) solution therefore seems to be to detattify* it and leave it as a white elephant. I think we’ve some Black Hammerite in the shed.

Then there are our other two mystery switchless lights (oh yes, some previous owner of this house really went to town on them), but we can more easily ignore those, as neither is within daily line of sight.

(*made-up word alert.)

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