Blue Christmas Lights.

[Ann]

Love 'em or hate 'em?

I have just seen a BBC report saying the Police are concerned as the blue flashing lights are playing havoc for the Police helicopters to spot emergency vehicles at scenes of accidents below them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20888663

Good - lets get back to traditional colours of red, green and white! (in my humble opinion!) LOL ;)

[boxtops]

Ann, I'm with you, I don't like them at all. Blue's an unnatural colour at Christmas.

[Hopkirk]

I have always said they are wrong, wrong, wrong.

I don't like the brilliant white LED ones either, they need to be more of a yellowy candle like colour.

[Prudie]

I don't like them at all but (and please don't take this the wrong way Ann) this is the third thread I've seen this Xmas about blue lights - have they only just come out this year?

[sherrardk]

The house across the road has them, lost count of the number of times I have thought a police car or something must have pulled up.

[Ann]

Hi Prudie - no they have been out for a few years but I think more and more people are now having them - our estate looks like a scene from a disaster movie!

I appreciate just how difficult it must be for the Police, we were on a dark country road a few nights before Christmas when we saw lots of blue flashing at the top of a hill, when we got there we found it was a restaurant with single blue lights all around the roof and in the trees (thank goodness) but at the very next crossroads there really WAS a terrible accident with ambulances, fire engines and police patrol cars all with blue lights. We actually commented on it, now the police have issued this statement today.

[Connemmara]

Hi everyone and happy new year - Ooops I got rid of my green tree and bought a white tree for "next year" if God spares me. Reduced from £50 to £10. It has got blue lights to wrap round. One of these convenience trees just to pop up and pop down - at my time of life that is what I want. However, will change lights to red cos I think they are "cold" myself.

[Robinia]

I really dislike the bright blue lights, I can't look at them, they play havoc with my eyes. Agree with Hopkirk too, the harsh white lights are just as bad.

[Ann]

I have just been to a Nottcutts garden centre and bought some fantastic battery lights which work underwater!! So these can be used all the year round in vases, in dishes with floating candles and in garden fountains etc. They are really lovely - OH bought some and decorated my gift bag of christmas presents with them (he is quite artistic) so we have been back today and got 3 more packs of white, red and multi-coloured. £4.99 each but unfortunately not in their sale items.

[Connemmara]

Hi Anne86 - the only thing with battery lights is that the batteries never last long and the lighting fades quite quickly.

[woofgang]

wrong wrong wrong, really nasty. (blue lights that is)

[woofgang]

I have all battery lights this year. 12 different strings. They went up on dec 15th and have been on for eight hours every day, still all on the same batteries.

[Ann]

Our red battery lights have been on every evening since Christmas Day across our fireplace and only use 2 AA batteries from part of a pack from Poundland! I noticed they are starting to fade now, but think how many hours we got from just 2 batteries!

[DTCwordfan]

I don't like them and can sympathise with the police concern. I came around a corner last week to think that there was an incident on, two houses with blue lights flashing away.

[Ann]

Yes let's hope they enforce a ban on the horrid things!

[daffy654]

Love em, the red, yellow, green ones look common and tacky, I much prefer blue or white.

[Ann]

Everybody to their own daffy, I am sure I would like them at other times of the year but I'm a traditionalist at Christmas :))

[LyndaB]

I do think they are a beautiful colour, but they hurt my eyes to look at them!

[Eve]

I was thinking about that the other day. I was on the bus heading up a very busy main route out of the city with a major hospital and often many other emergency vehicles.

I could see blue flashing lights ahead, not unusual round there, and it turned out a restaurant/takeaway on the corner (large intersection) had put a load of blue lights up round it - just seemed a ridiculous place in an area which is so busy with traffic and so many fast moving emergency vehicles.

[vulcan]

I don't like the blue lights, as others have said they're too cold. It isn't just these that create confusion, I went out one evening and whilst away my neighbour put a large display of Father Christmas, sleigh and reindeer on his roof. Driving along the road on my return I thought his roof was alight and was reaching for the mobile phone until I realised what it was.

[pusskin]

i have never liked the blue lights, and will never have them in my house or garden. They come across as very cold looking.