Deck the halls...

Well, we didn't do the hall, but we did do the living room. And each year it gets harder to find somewhere to plug the fairy lights into. You see, behind our telly are two sockets, and the demand on these sockets grows every year.

Before we put up the decorations, socket one (to be left on all the time) had a 6-socket thingy plugged into it, this in turn had plugged into it:
- A TV
- A video recorder
- A DVD player
- A satellite box
- A lava lamp (which has an on/off switch)
- One of these gizmos

Socket two (to be turned on as required) had a 4-socket thingy plugged into it which in turn had plugged into it:
- A halogen floor lamp
- A water mister
- A thing made out of lots of coloured LEDs that cycle through the spectrum
- A 2-socket thingy with a wireless MP3 player plugged into one socket and the hifi into the other.

Oh, and BTW the hifi is 4 separate units (turntable, CD player, amplifier and radio tuner) which are wired into another thingy enabling them to share one plug. With me so far? Thought not.

Anyway, we had to work out what to sacrifice in order to plug in the fairy lights that hang in the window and the two sets that go on the tree. And they had to go on socket two as they couldn't be on all the time. We decided the water mister and the coloured-LED-thingy were non-essential and Adam wired both sets of tree lights into one socket, which he assured me was safe. All sorted.

Part of our socket problem due to Adam's fascination with interesting lighting devices - nearly all of which require mains electricity. We have 4 others in the living room alone. And then there are the vintage radios - one in nearly every room, including the bathroom (although that one is battery powered). And of course there are the computers, the broadband modem and the wifi device.

And to think I thought the house had more than enough sockets when we moved in.