Solstice Weekend Safety Tip

[dr_pretentious]

You may be planning to set fire to a plum pudding this weekend.

No problem, you're thinking. Brandy burns at such a low temperature, you can play snapdragon with your combustible dessert.

And snapdragon is a lot of fun.

But the plum pudding you're imagining is decorated with holly leaves. Maybe freshly cut holly leaves, maybe dried, maybe--and this would be interesting--plastic.

Igniting your combustible dessert won't burn your fingers, but it will get your holly leaves going in a very serious way, as we discovered a couple of years ago. Your flaming holly leaves could, theoretically, get other things going, too.

So.

Take the holly off and put it well aside before you light the brandy.

Live a long time.

And Happy Yule.

Comments

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

That would be a truly awesome piece of headgear. A heads-up, though: the nine woods chant is, among other things, a fertility spell, so depending on your plans for eventual family size, you might want to give the 9-Tree-Crown to a fictional character rather than wear it, yourself.

Now I'm imagining all the things that might happen in a story with a 9-Tree-Crown in it, and what sorts of characters might make or wear or desire it, and why.