Just got a scare. Went for a drink, came back into the bedroom and my eyes started going funny. It felt like I was in a room with strobe lighting, flash,flash , flash. Thought to myself, summat wrong here, better sit down. So I did. The flippin bulb in the lamp was on it's last legs and going berserk, it freaked me out.
Sheeeesh, what a relief!

When did a light bulb become a light globe? Is it an americanism? Same is aust. it's globe not bulb???

sheelagh

hehe Sheelagh my hubby cracks up when I say light bulb - its not the word but the way we lanky's say it, the deep vowel sound and all LOL.
Bernice

ooohhhh if that happened to me ,flashing light etc. I would know I was starting with a migraine
headache,not good

Wendy,you have my sympathy.Although I've never had a migraine in my life(touch wood),Gwyn occasionally gets one & it really lays her low.( & it MUST be bad for her to take to her bed!).
Phil,are you sure it was the bulb & not the drink?

auschick wrote:
When did a light bulb become a light globe? Is it an americanism? Same is aust. it's globe not bulb???

sheelagh?
Pardon Sheelagh? The thingy I screw in when it gets dark is called A BULB. silly name really, say it three times fast, sounds funny don't it? Like ya have a gobstopper in your mouth...
Nope Roy, been good lately with having the flu , haven't had a drink in a week, been Suckin on the cough syrup tho!
I gotta go, need more syrup!!
Be good.
Phil.

He he, another one I like that americans say is aloooominum for aluminium as in cans. That always gives me a chuckle.

Aussies call 'vests' a singlet?? My kids used to crack up when I called them vests. "Tuck your vest in"!!

Any more anybody.

sheelagh

Howdy Folks,
Okay, my first Canadian hubby used to laugh and try to mimic me when I talked about buttons. Again, the heavy sound in the U. He couldn't manage it although he thought he did - it came out 'Booo-tuns'!

SILLY HAPPENINGS...I know of two:
An elderly friend in Stacksteads wrote to me years ago...she had gotten up one morning and, coming to the top of the stairs, had seen the mail lying behind the front door - but out of focus. She blinked and looked again - still not focused properly. Oh my God, she thought, I've had a stroke!!
She put her hand up to her head and it was then that she discovered that one of the lenses had fallen out of her specs... :-o

And again, my Mum got up one morning and went to do her morning ablutions...went to put in her false teeth and they wouldn't fit. She came to the same conclusion...a stroke!! Then she realised that her false teeth were still in their cup on the bathroom vanity....and she was trying to wear my Dad's.

Them wur the days! - Jeni.

Wendy my eyes go blurred first when i get a Migraine attack, then the flashing lights then the headache, on goes the sunglasses but if the headache is severe i go and lie down in a darken room. Regards Doris C

Phil, you do suffer a lot in one way or another. Regards Doris C

Sheelagh in my young days a vest was a singlet for my Dad, vest was for the females, Regards Doris C

You suffer too with Migraines Doris ? I had them so badly when I was younger but thankfully now they don't come as often. My youngest daughter has suffered with a daily headache for 9 years ,she has been to all kinds of headache specialist & just this past week had a nerve stimulator inserted in her head , we are praying she gets relief.

Wendy, i have just found out in Dec 07 i am starting with a cateract which eye don't know i did ask, but got no answer to the question, my doctor will found out, i think its my left eye seems there is more pressure than normal.Regards Doris C

Quite right Phil, A LIGHT BULB IT IS mind you there is some that does look like a globe, the gobular type the 6 year ones, i have one in the ceiling light in my lounge. Regards Doris C