November 13th Let There Be Light

There was lots of chuckles in the house tonight. But I have to go back a couple of weeks to explain. At our last Xmas light display, we spent quite a lot of money on solar net lights that draped over a large boundary hedge. They looked very impressive and of course didn't require a power source. We have always been fairly anti solar powered devices as they really don't appear to last and their life span isn't that long. However an exception was made for these solar net lights.

November 2014 arrives and we start unpacking all the various light sources. A bone of contention was these solar net lights. They did cost us a pretty amount, and as expected, they weren't working. Bah Humbug. We grumbled to each other and said that is definitely the last time we trust solar. Grumble, mutter, four letter words, grumble mutter four letter words - to each other.  We purchased replacements - that connected to a power source this time.

Yesterday we were doing our display bits. George had left these solars out as he was going to attempt a repair if possible, before consigning them to the overflowing garbage dumps of this world. Next minute I heard George calling himself all manner of names and wondered what on earth was going on.

What was going on is that when storing these net lights, the obvious thing to do is remove all batteries of everything in storage. This included the solar net lights.  So one battery later the below was the result. Is that an oops I hear? With our express apologies to the solar net light manufacturers of the world.