In September I was a little obsessed by the colours created by daylight and artificial light falling on crumpled white bedlinen.

The October obsession may well become light falling on and through two new light fittings.

Yesterday we replaced two of our chandeliers with crumpled paper light shades.

We’ve gone down from 7 old chandeliers to just one old, but simple one,and a new contemporary one.

The grime that revealed itself when the last three old chandeliers came down yesterday was a very serious lesson in housekeeping. I have flitted about on the chandeliers with my feather duster  infrequently for the three years we have lived here.

It is my humble opinion that chandeliers are a really bad idea in a house without the numbers of domestic staff that Victorians were used to. The grime visible on the upper parts of the chandeliers as they came down to ground level was grim. Appalling. Off to the tip with them!

So now I can be thrilled with light playing on crumpled paper rather than looking up in horror at dusty chandeliers, and I didn’t even know quite how dusty they really were.