Now I don’t know about you, but in my experience, ALL fathers have a revolutionary change when we have children. We are the original GREENIES, in the purest sense of the word. It’s actually true. When was the last time a Dad walked past a child’s room, with their clothes neatly hung up on the floor and the lights still blazing after the impetuous rush out to the PS3, TV or for food. First there is the ‘huff and puff’ from us Dads as, off goes the light switch! Think about it. We hate wastage when it’s us that pays the bills. Welcome to the Adult Male Green revolution. In our quest for saving the planet – with as little fuss as possible, we turned to bulk purchasing those compact fluorescent ‘twirly’ bulbs that the marketers promised would save our power bills and our rubbish hills from the all too frequent ‘ping’ we heard when we turned on our light bulbs. Actually, getting a long life bulb option should have been promoted as a free marriage guidance session as our wonderful ladies tended to get on our case about changing that darn blackened light bulb in the corridor or above the children’s homework desk. Now it wasn’t the cost of the light bulb that caused the avoidance of 2 months to change it, it was the hassle of buying one every other week as they ‘popped’ on a seemingly all too regular basis. Add to that, getting the ladder or stool out of the cupboard, moving the furniture around as well as enduring the ‘red ear syndrome’ from she who must be obeyed. No this new energy efficient bulb would save the day, like some glowing super hero coming to the rescue of our maintenance budgets.