Old fashioned Christmas lights

[Namechangex10000]

Please, for the love of all things Christmas, somebody tell me where I can purchase them in adundance - or, if any mumsnetters are hoarding them someone in the loft and shed - please sell them to me 😩

Following. LEDs are too bright. I’ve always been hankering after old fashioned warm coloured lights.

Would they pass H&S regs.

Are you me?? I adore these lights and are the only ones I allow. I haven't been able to get the flower petal style ones but got the spiky style ones from a cheapo place a few years ago, might have been pound stretcher.
They blew up this year just gone so now I'm
back to square one.

@OhTheRoses Doubt it.

www.amazon.co.uk/75230-Christmas-Workshop-Benross-Decoration/dp/B000ML01C4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=christmas+fairy+lights+coloured&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1587849547&sr=8-3

I have these, no flowery shades, but remind me of fairy lights when I was a child in the 80s.

I have 4 boxes of the ones Raven linked to. They're beautiful but the bulbs to go quickly - which is why I've bought so many (one box is for spare bulbs). Totally worth it.

Oh I love them. That top petal set we're on my childhood tree!

Like these?

They’re called pickwick fairy lights and I got some a few years running (because they don’t last long at all) from a site called UK Christmas World but they don’t seem to have them now - maybe they’ll get some more closer to Christmas? Googling pickwick fairy lights brings some up on eBay and Amazon though.

I also hate LEDs. Too bright, and the wrong colours. They make me feel a bit migrainey.
I am watching with interest. I do have some old ones that I have hung on to.

Following because I need to replace ours!

I've been looking for lantern ones for ages..

I started a thread on this a few years ago. They have to have pink ones! Most of them don't.

Yes they need to have pink in them! My lovely Nan gave me her’s last year, they feel wonderfully nostalgic.

I LOVE those lights!!! I could have written your post OP!

They do HAVE to have that particular pink as well as red.
I have found my people ! 😀

I have three sets of exactly these lights (the top ones with the plastic petals). I bought them from a Christmas shop in Cambridge in 2005 I think, before LEDs became ubiquitous. Blue, green, pink and amber. They’re still going strong, and no, you may not have them OP.

Following with interest! I found a short set with lanterns in our local garden centre two years ago but I really want a flowery set for the tree!

Just bought a set of those Amazon ones because they have the holy grail of red and pink!!

On sale here too

I got Noma Pickwick Lights from Amazon about 3 years ago. They're fab , so warm and pretty - though they do rather gobble up spare bulbs(!). It looks like they're not available on most websites now so maybe they're not being made. Perhaps eBay?
I agree about the LED ones. They're too bright.

I have various traditional strings both coloured and warm white which I patiently unravel every Christmas , hold my breath, curse, find spare bulbs etc. All part of the festive tradition in our house!

But sorry OP - not for sale

Noma still make the pickwick lights and the Canterbury bells. You can get them on Amazon and Ebay.
Also Ebay has loads of vintage sets nearer to Christmas - including lanterns.
Spare bulbs also available from some sellers.