Sir, - This candle will be a memento of a family moment shared by many others in Ireland. What's left of it will join the treasure trove of teeth retrieved from the tooth fairy, Christening candles, champagne corks with six-pences stuck in them, etc. Pace, Irish Times correspondents, but lighten up a little. Some of us quasi-sophisticated 1990s tigers and tigerettes will indulge our secret vice, sentimentality. Aw, go on, it wouldn't kill you to join in and light the thing! - Yours, etc., Norah Norton,
Bray, Co Wicklow.