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It worked! And we're not dead!! :P Thanks again

Thank you SO much, that's really helpful. Off to do it before the light goes!

The new light is a single normal bayonet bulb - so if we sleeve the earth, connect it to the earth part of the light fitting we can just screw in the other two whichever way round and it will be ok? Sorry to sound stupid, just want to be 100% we are doing this right! Cheers SO much for...

That's what we thought! Just didn't want to let our layman knowledge carry more weight than it should. The bare conductor was connected to the metal light base plate fitting - it didn't go anywhere, which is why we figured it must be the earth! Are we safe to give it a go?

HI! I really hope someone can help with this. It SHOULD have been a really easy job - take off old light, note wire placings, put on new light - ta da! But no. We took off the ugly flush light fitting, and all that is coming out of the ceiling are three wires. Not casings, with smaller wires...