Christmas lights - again
Miraculously, as if a sign from above. A reminder that Christmas should be a joyful event. The other half of the icicle Christmas lights that weren't working, (so I was going to throw them out at the end of this season), suddenly decided to light up and work.
Maybe the lights knew their time was up?
Maybe that cat chewed the wire, he is into plastic bags at the moment, and shocked the lights into working.
On the subject of lights, the BBC rather too brightly and the Daily Mail, announced that Christmas lights from American homes use more electricity than whole countries use in a year! El Salvador, Tanzania, and Ethiopia use far less than America does in the Christmas month.
While I am all for decorating the tree and making the house look festive, do we really need to adorn our dwellings with so much carbon-emitting light?
What happened to the climate change talks? What happened to Americans (and a lot more of us all over the world), reducing our carbon footprint?
With all that light, how on earth can Santa get down the chimney undetected?
DOWN THE CHIMNEY ©
‘Can’t you see, Old Nick’s got hurt?
His face’s one mass of dirt.
Go find a cloth and something clean,
He’s looking rather green.
But Santa coughed and then stood up,
‘Ho, Ho! My gosh, what luck!
I’ve got a rather nagging hunch,
I’ve arrived in time for lunch.’
Bah Humbug! Turn the lights off!!
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