Unexpected electrical skills.
What you see here, is a brave attempt on something I had never done before. I set off to change the plug on a lamp I bought in IKEA the other day! (I don't now why, but even though we have 3-pin plugs in this part of the world, the IKEA products are still sold with Swedish 2-pin plugs? Certainly not Swedish logic!) I'm so sick of having big, clumsy adapters in every socket.
I must say, I didn't really believe I would be able to do it, but gave it a try anyway. I opened another plug I had, to see how it was all connected, did the chop, and then it was no return.
Actually, it wasn't that complicated! I did it (in true Dora-spirit), and then there was light:
This photo is a bit too bright, the lamp actually looks like this:
(Picture borrowed from www.ikea.com)
It's the new 'Knubbig' hand blown lamp, with cherry blossoms on it. Very pretty!
