Flicker Zzzzzt *Pop*
The power transformer at the end of our street died last night (with a loud pop) so the street was in darkness from about 8. After using my mobile phone's backlight to track down a real torch, I dug around the house looking for some candles.
Of course the greatest upside of a blackout is the perfectly good excuse to light heaps of candles... I think I'm discovering my pyro tendencies later in life (I'm willing to accept some responsibility for littering Matt & April's backyard with at least a hundred tealights and a fair few bamboo flares for a 21st party).
It's also a great excuse to bring out the snowballs.
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 and filed under Photos.
Comments
Surely there must be some sort of inherent risk in putting a camera that close to a naked flame.
Posted by: Mot on May 12, 2004
Next you'll be telling me that there's a risk in taking a camera out in the rain, right?
Yeah, it was reasonably close, but it survived. And high school physics tells me that yellow flames aren't really that hot.
Posted by: Si on May 12, 2004
Ah yes, the good ol' misnomer that is the safety flame
Posted by: Matt on May 12, 2004
The ol' seeing by the phone backlight trick, eh? I use that every night to find my way around the house w'out waking up the spouse!
Posted by: Adam on May 13, 2004
I can't remember which manufacturer it was, but I noticed the other day that one phone company has finally gone "oh, the hell with it, we'll just include an actual torch in the phone".
Good on'em, I say.
PS but what's truly scary is that at the last concert I saw there were more backlit mobile phones being waved in the air than cigarette lighters...
Posted by: Matt on May 16, 2004
