Oh, all good points, certainly. And I will confess that I still use a single surviving incandescent in my timer-switched alarm lamp (which is a good thing, actually - when it inevitably goes plink-pop, I will have to get off my backside and sort my dysfunctional sleeping habits out!).

Oddly enough, re: any sort of painting, I've never had an issue with flourescents. (And given how picky I am generally, that's little short of a miracle...) Rather with me it seems to be the *level* of the light that's important, rather than the specific type. So if I can maximise the number of lights I have on, without having to feel too environmentally or financially guilty, all the better!

This has mainly become one of my 'windbag' issues due to a silly person they had on the news a couple of years ago. They were interviewed about this, and their argument against it was basically 'Oh my, this is Britain, we don't do Change, nothing can ever Change, it would be unBritish! Oh my, watch me swoon at the thought!' (And I'm not actually straw-manning that much there, either - they *did* actually denounce it all as unBritish!)

It's probably on YouTube somewhere - if it is, it's worth a watch, because it was quite funny in an inverse sort of way!