Nooooo ! We’ve only just got over the Critair sticker placement thread…!
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This weather is driving me crazy… in case you hadn’t noticed… 
While I’m so relieved that we seem to have escaped the worst of things (so far)… it’s clear from reports that many have not been so lucky…
and there’s possibly more flooding to come in some areas…
Take care everyone…
Watching the lunchtime news, the flooding in Pas de Calais is horrendous.
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I think we have passed the 40 days and 40 nights schedule some time back.
It’s looking very grim…
I do find dull dark grey skies reaching through my bedroom windows so depressing when I wake up. Vitamin D pills don’t do it for me. But the sunshine flooding my bedroom when I woke up this morning gave me a huge lift. It wasn’t so much the sun, but the bright light. Surprised by how mentally invigorating it was, but unfortunately not physically so!
When I was living in London, I worked in an architectural office which was extremely well lit, some might say too bright, but not for me. I need the light! But artificial light is at a premium now! All that can be done I suppose, is to be out and about, and take advantage of precious bright sunny days.
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I’m dragging OH out for each brief sunny spell… but he’s not built for speed and the sun has sometimes/often changed its mind and vanished… by the time OH’s finally got his outdoor shoes On…
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He had that well planned then 
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When I was in the UK, we fitted daylight spectrum lightbulbs in the living areas. It made a big difference. Most of the currently available LED bulbs seem to be “warm white” - i.e. sort of yellowish and, in my view, the kind of light I associate with nightmares. Even the cool whites (around 4000K) aren’t up to what I’d found before (6000K?), although they are obviously better for me than warm white.
Strange because so many people finf the kind of light I like as harsh and the duller coloured lights as cosy…
Don’t they have public light booths in Scandinavia which look like photo booths but where you can get a blast of artificial daylight?
I don’t know but I do know that light boxes emitting the right spectrum are recommended for people with macular degeneration…and the bulbs of course…
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Look for better suppliers IMO. Its not just the temperature of the light colour but the colour rendition index (CRI) that matters. Daylight being 100% (when we have some sunshine 
) most LED’s generally available are only around 80 CRI whereas better lamps are 97-98 CRI.
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Red light therapy possibly?
Hmm. not heard of this… heard of red wine though… and I do enjoy that therapy (in moderation of course)… hic
Agree about the CRI, the closer to 100% the more natural colours which are illuminated by the lamp will look.
As for colour temp “warm” which is normally about 2700K usually looks too yellow to my eye and even high CRI “daylight” 6000K lamps are too harsh for evening lighting so I try to find lamps about 4000K
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I found a few of those the other day in Weldom so got them. 2700k is horrible. I wouldn’t want 6000K in a bedroom but great for a living room (at least for me)
Candle light in my book.
can someone tell me what CW6000K is… OH has replaced old bulbs with these leds…
Daylight spectrum bulbs more-or-less, I think. I would like some. Do you know where he got them?