Every channel needs a list programme to fill the schedule after a late night when sleep should but won't yet come. HelenUpdates is joining the trend with a new game; Light, Candle, Dark. It's simply a list of tasks and the energy required to perform them.
Every here says "there's no light" when the electricity isn't flowing, as in the more mechanised UK we say power. I think it shows how our cultures and geography mean that we prioritise differently. Though I did try to say "amut lerr" once ("I do not have light") and that was clearly very wrong. As an aside Lerr is my actual name in Gambian, or in sound terms it's xel (pronounced hel) which means mind/spirit/self. All great things.
And to the list:
Toilet - Dark
Shower - candle
Watching ants playing on the bathroom floor - light
Walking - dark (usually)
Walking without falling over - light
Adding credit to the electric metre - light (which can mean waiting for odd clues such as a cut in the background him of generators and then running out in the rain in your pyjamas)
Eating - candle
Cooking - candle
Washing up - dark (though candle is better)
Drinking water - dark
Making ice - light
Pretending there are no cockroaches in your kitchen - dark
Tucking in your mosquito net - dark
Listening to a tropical storm batter round the Kombos - dark with flashes of light (hence unplugging everything before it starts!)
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