I know this is a rather obscure question but please bear with me…
Donkey’s years ago I bought a packet of long wax tapers. I don’t know what they were deisgned for - church candles maybe? Anyway, they were absolutely perfect for lighting log fires, awkward gas burners, all sorts. I have made do recently with long matches but honestly the tapers were better and they ran out a couple of years back. I’ve searched on-line and can’t find anything like them. Do they still exist? Anyone seem any? They were mush easier to use than the lighter fuel things that an elderly relative used for her gas stove.
Yes, I got them quite readily in the UK and they are slightly less available in France but I really like tapers! Extremely practical (speaking as someone who have used up to 6 matched lighting a barbecue when part of one taper would have done the job!)
I did have a quick look there @_Brian but Etsy is usually much more craft orientated than what I’m looking for. I might even have got the originals in IKEA, they were that functional
They seem to show a great many fancy candles but not the cheap-and-cheerful things I’m looking fir… Thinking about it, perhaps I’m living in the wrong century
I see what you mean @billybutcher - they’re a lot posher than I was thinking though. Perhaps what I’m looking for no longer exists (where is my Tardis? )
