So what did you do during Earth hour?

I nearly forgot all about it! But we duly switched off all the lights. Jan watched rugby and I phoned my sister Elsabe. It is her birthday today. We had a lovely long chat....

Meanwhile in the bathroom (yes all these books are in the bathroom) the red candle leaked and made a horrible mess... there are little spots of wax on the acrylic carpet. How am I going to get rid of the wax on the mat? I can't iron it as I tried that before on an acrylic carpet and still sit with a scorched mark! Hope I can brush it off, but haven't the guts to do it today!
There are heaps of washing and there were unmentionables in the tupper cupboard, so late last night - after earth hour - Jan washed all the tupperware while I first cleaned out the cupboard and hunted you know what and then started to dry said tupperware.... It took me quite a while to sort out all the lids etc and repack the cupboard.

When I lifted the empty candle holder this morning, I saw that it made a horrible mess of the diary in which I record my weight - glad I have not set the house on fire!

Moral of the story: save electricity, but watch your candles!! If you burn down the house, you'll send even more earth warming gasses into the air than the burning light bulbs would have!

PS. Hendrik made the most of earth hour: he went to Goodland to watch stars with "sterrekundiges".