A mystery

It's been established that Munoz has introduced me to the joy of candles, more specifically tea lights. I love, love, love spending quiet nights at home with Gazza while the fire is going, hot chocolate is steaming, Vivaldi is playing, and the candles are flickering.

I find it interesting to see which tea light makes it the longest. You would think that because the tree has the most tea light holders, statistically the last candle would most often be on it, but I've found that not to be the case (there, um, may or may not have been a calculator involved). Instead the lone light keeping late hours with the fire usually is on the votif on top of the fireplace.

Why would this be? Yes, its closer to the cracked door, and arguably maybe that slows down the burn rate, but at the same time its on top of the fireplace. To state the obvious, it's not exactly in the coldest part of the house.