silly - yes, surprising - no
All councils have a KJR department now.
I don't want to seem unsympathetic towards the poor guy who was badly burned in a Newcastle club in September, after he leaned against a balcony that had candles on it.
The latest result of this though, as we found out yesterday while setting up in our Newcastle venue, is that local Health & Safety have banned the use of candles in public venues in the area. Including all bars, clubs, pubs and restaurants, as we were told by the kindly H&S officer. Now... not mixing candles with stupidly drunk clubbers should be a no-brainer, but no more candle-lit dinners in restaurants? That's getting a bit silly, surely?
silly - yes, surprising - no
All councils have a KJR department now.
Or maybe the bods running Newcastle council also are behind the company who makes these...
Battery Candles - Lazybone
It's all very well arguing the point, but there's no smoke without fire...
I'll get my coat...
ive been to a couple of venues dancing that have had candle disasters. One when a candle caught the paper table cloth alight.... they now use the pretend tea candle things that are really just alight that flickers. The other one had somebody throw a towel on the table that ended up on fire.. they no longer use candles either.
They are dangerous so i can understand the ban... shame though cause you cant beat candle light..
I met a girl who made candle snuffers a few years ago. She's an old flame now though.
OK, OK, I know puns like this really get on your wick, so I'll stop now.
I'm off to a candlelit freestyle this Friday nr Guildford - I'll report back on Saturday if they still had them or not, and wax lyrical about the evening in general
I've had to stop dancing before to put out a towel that caught fire from a candle at an empty table. It's easy done. Having said that, in all the events I've been to where they've used candles (and there have been plenty!), I've only seen this type of thing happen maybe once or twice.
I don't see the problem with having candles in restaurants etc.
I think that rule may be coming to Oz as well - if it hasn't already. I was at a Thai restaurant a couple of weekends ago and I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of the candles on the table were lit (this isn't often the case in Sydney restaurants, as the staff don't bother to relight or replace candles once they go out on tables - unless you ask them too!). When I took a closer look at the candle I was surprised that it wasn't actually a candle, but something along the lines of the "battery candle" in the link above. It was pretty groovy in that it had a similar flicker that a real candle would - it wasn't obvious that it wasn't a real candle.
If we aren't careful, the goody goodies will stop candle lit dinnersand baths, even at home
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8211543.stm
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