Candles and pyromania
Feb. 2nd, 2003 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkFor Candlemas today I lit dozens of candles and spread them around my room. It was exceedingly pretty, what with candlelight flickering around and light fluttering off everything. Yay for candles.
This stopped being pretty when one of my candle decorations set alight. This is some fake plastic ivy leaves and other bits that came with the candlestick, which goes around the holder, and makes it look nicer. I've had it for years, and not had any problems with it, and always assumed it was fireproof. It suddenly went up in flames and lots of acrid black smoke! Then it started melting and dripping big globs of hot melty and flaming plastic all over my bookcase!!!!
Eeeep!!! At this stage I had visions of my entire bookcase going up in flames.
I got the fire under control in the end, before anything else got damaged, although the candle decoration was a lump of very deformed charred plastic, and got binned.
So I guess I was lucky. And I think theres a firefighters strike on too, which could have made things very messy if it had gotten any worse.
This stopped being pretty when one of my candle decorations set alight. This is some fake plastic ivy leaves and other bits that came with the candlestick, which goes around the holder, and makes it look nicer. I've had it for years, and not had any problems with it, and always assumed it was fireproof. It suddenly went up in flames and lots of acrid black smoke! Then it started melting and dripping big globs of hot melty and flaming plastic all over my bookcase!!!!
Eeeep!!! At this stage I had visions of my entire bookcase going up in flames.
I got the fire under control in the end, before anything else got damaged, although the candle decoration was a lump of very deformed charred plastic, and got binned.
So I guess I was lucky. And I think theres a firefighters strike on too, which could have made things very messy if it had gotten any worse.
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Date: 2003-02-02 03:36 pm (UTC)Still, maybe i need to find some new candle decorations. And some more candles! After today I used most of the rest of my candle-horde up.
Candlemas is also called Imbolc (the celtic name) or bridesday (the pagan name), and used to be St Valentines day in the old Julian calendar. Then pope gregory shifted the calendar by 12 days, and bridesday moved to the 2nd, even if Valentines day stuck on the 14th.