Once upon a time I went to Ikea and bought a giant bag of tealights for a ridiculously small amount of money. Tea lights are great, tea lights are fashionable, tea lights can be used to give atmosphere to a dinner party, tea lights come with pretty holders that you covet.
I never used the bloody tea lights. They were annoying in several ways but the most irritating thing about the standard tea light is that it lasts for only four hours, and the cheap ones burn for even less time. Lighting the candles at 7pm means that you have to break the atmosphere by replacing candles at 10.30pm, just when everyone is loosening up.
The elegant hostess is probably not using tea lights and favours dinner candles. For the rest of us I recommend using Price’s nightlights.
These nightlights are £2.75 for six on the Price’s website. The beauty of them is they last for eight hours. If your dinner guests haven’t gone home by three in the morning then whether your candles are alight or not is going to be the least of your problems!
I recommend these Price’s candles because they are unscented. I detest having dinner with a scented candle wafting unnatural smells at me. It interferes with the food and drink.
It must be noted that these candles are taller than the cheap tealights, so they may rise above your cheap tealight holder. But then so should you really!
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