19-Feb-2010, 08:22 AM
It's just a bit of fun Linda, you've been reading too much H&S I think.
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Chinese New Year
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20-Feb-2010, 03:37 AM
If something like piano wire is used to give the lantern its shape, then it's really a problem for both domesticated livestock and wild animals of a similar size. Getting a 6" diameter 12" long spring wrapped round somewher or, worse still, swallowed, is very serious.
If the type of lantern is spherical or some other shape that is stable without any internal structure, then OK, provided you can be sure that fire is out before it comes down. I suppose internal bracing with bamboo or balsa would be ok, as they're both non-lethal to animals. Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968, retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
20-Feb-2010, 03:41 AM
Just noticed your comment about the "Year of the Tiger", Martin. Maybe that's a good omen for a certain over-sexed golfer? I just realised, after mis-spelling "certain", that the suggested substitute ("cretin") shows a remarkable prescience on the part of the spell-checker's programmers!
Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968, retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
21-Feb-2010, 07:04 AM
Our balloon's shape was made entirely of tissue for the balloon part and the only wire used was a small 6 inch cross of wire to hold the cotton wool on which we put the meths. I don't think that would have harmed too many animals in the wild. Nothing to get round their necks.... Sandy
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