A lightbulb moment.....

"Funny" Somerset estate agent Jules Bending's apparently going into the obsolete light bulb business, and admits he's been stockpiling traditional hundred watters in a farmer's shed in the Mendip Hills, in readiness for the ban.



Guardian readers are apparently furious.

Until now, Bending – who runs an estate agency in Glastonbury, Somerset – has been better known for his tongue-in-cheek property descriptions which have got him banned by Rightmove.

However, he may now become more illustrious for his collection of 6,700 bulbs, which he believes will fetch between £40 and £60 each when sold on to climate-change refuseniks desperate for the real thing.

The sale of ‘ordinary’ 100w light bulbs has now been banned but many people do not like the energy-saving variety, which Bending says give off a “pukey green” light.

One property blogger feels slightly queasy. Ah... the West Country, where estate agent-sponsored mud wrestling is considered good publicity, and sticking light bulbs in a shed is entrepreneurship....

Until the next time,

Mr Jackson.