From Steve Cassidy
The dire warnings found on some relaxing aromatic candles, which excited Feedback’s derision (8 May), are far from unusual. I spent last weekend in a holiday home equipped with a wood-burning stove that was able to consume 2 cubic feet of logs in an hour – yet the building handbook imposes a blanket ban on candles inside the property.
The only major candle-related accident that has occurred in my circle of friends came about when a nylon parachute was used to drape a candlelit room at a party. The result was a disastrous, lightning-fast, dripping-molten-plastic house fire. Sometimes people do need those nanny-style warnings.
London, UK
