Couple suggest keeping Christmas lights after Twelfth Night
ISLANDERS are being asked to keep their outdoor Christmas lights up for another few weeks.
Roy Sarre, co-director of the Festiva choir, and his wife Maddie would like to see people retaining their lights in the same way as festive bunting was kept up long after Liberation Day.
It was a sunny afternoon giving way to black clouds and hail that made Mr and Mrs Sarre think about how this mirrored what happened after Christmas, when the bright colourful lights decorating many islanders’ homes are taken down.
‘When you get to 4 January, everything shuts down,’ said Mr Sarre.
‘I said wouldn’t it be wonderful if all the lights were kept on for the whole of January?’
He said he had also heard about people’s mental health being affected by the pandemic, and thought that keeping the lights on could help.
He wondered if it might also help those who are affected by seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression that occurs on a seasonal basis.
Mr Sarre said he thought the idea echoed the line in the Christmas carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem – Yet in thy dark street shineth/ The everlasting light.
Keeping the lights on would be a good way to show support for each other and to demonstrate how thankful the island is, he said.
