Earth Hour 2012

[cardiffsteve]

you've missed [/url] at the end of the address

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Steve - I've changed it again but its not quite what I found to start with! D'oh! Think I've switched off already!!

[cardiffsteve]

link works ok

[donnakebab]

Hmmm, maybe I will go outside with the telescope and see the stars without too much light interference.

It should be cloudless tonight. Wrap up though because frost forecast.

[GardenFaery]

I'm always divided about this? I think I did it last year, put candles on and enjoyed just sitting for a bit, a bit like meditating, without the 'expected' distractions of TV, internet, etc - I'm a complete tree hugger - am veggie, live ecologically etc - but I also think sometimes, misguidely focusing on 'helping the planet' in this way is focusing on the 'destruction' we think we are doing to the planet as a species?

Everything is a perception - my perception is nature is bigger than all of that and if push came to shove, 'she' would flick the human species off the planet in a blink of an eye and even with the greatest nuclear bomb inflicted by society etc - within about ten million years, although 'human' as we know they may have blown themselves up, life and growth would be restored again.

If you want to help the planet - then realise its real power and that you are part of it all - not a separate 'onlooker' inflicting only human waste and/or destruction?

I 'try' - it's sometimes difficult what with all the media trying to show us how 'horrible' we are, how much destruction is supposedly in the world etc every hour, which is another reason why I don't watch the news, but I try to focus on the strengths of nature, the surviving and the thriving parts. I think by doing this you are focusing on what you want, not on what you don't want...ie focusing on the natural, ongoing creation, not any destruction..

But hey what do I know - again isn't it just another perception? lol

[chris]

*bump*

~35mins to go folks.

[GardenFaery]

Yup - will be switching off lights etc anyway - but not the oven - sorry has a jacket spud in it! lol

[veggiechicken]

*bump*

~35mins to go folks.

What clock are you using Chris? Its 8.30 switch off!!

[GardenFaery]

ohh I might have time to eat my spud first LOL

[veggiechicken]

Ahhh Chris, I think I understand the confusion - you thought I'd said 8.00 but actually I'd written Boo for Boos mummy! I thought Caerphilly might have its own timewarp

[snuffer]

We in the snuffer household will be joining in as we have done for the past three years. Lots of candles (perhaps an episode of midsomer murders) and copious quantities of wine.

[veggiechicken]

Sounds good to me! Don't think I can get to you before 8.30 though!

[chris]

misread it! Anyway, it's almost right now... ~35mins and a bit! so ner.

[veggiechicken]

Ermmm I could get to you in 30 minutes - do you have copious amounts of wine like the Snuffers?

[chris]

I have 1 small bottle of wine, but it has the wifes name on it! Not much chocolate left either, two strips left and they'll be gon.... oh, they're gone