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my4beauties 
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Posted: 24 March 2009 at 5:29pm |
Who is doing it this year? I've never really known about it til I heard it advertised on the radio today, but I plan to do it this Saturday at 8:30pm!
http://earthhour.org
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Posted: 24 March 2009 at 6:04pm |
Yep I'm doing it. I missed it last year because it wasn't that well advertised. I was bummed when I saw it on the news the next day.
It'll be fun I reckon. 
I wonder how many babies will be born 9 months after 
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Posted: 24 March 2009 at 6:16pm |
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We did it last year and will be doing it this year again if I remember lol
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Posted: 24 March 2009 at 6:26pm |
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I was going to post a topic on this the other day but didnt get round to it lol!!!
I hope our baby comes 8 1/2 months later (IYKWIM) lol I dont think itll quite be the right timing for that though but we will be participating in earth hour!!
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Posted: 24 March 2009 at 7:33pm |
Good stuff girls!!
bobbie I only heard about it the day after it happened last year as well, so I'm glad it's been advertised a bit more this year.
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Posted: 25 March 2009 at 10:55am |
We will be doing it this year 
Will have to think of something fun to pass the time.. maybe a game of spotlight or candlelit dinner
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 12:14am |
We'll be doing it this year. We were in Sydney on our honeymoon for Earth Hour last year but were watching the Sydney Philharmonic at the Opera House. Apparently they used all green energy because it was Earth Hour - I reckon they should be using it all the time!
We'll probably eat dinner by candle light and play some cards or board games. Or we will be trying to get C to go to sleep like tonight 
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 8:27am |
It's only turning off the lights, right ...... so I can still be on OB and use the computer screen to light the room
Though I think DH would prefer a candle lit dinner. ** sigh **
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 10:13am |
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okay..i'll be honest. theres no way i'll be doing it. 3 guys in the house and no xbox, sky, tv, or computer...get real!
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 12:54pm |
I thought it wasd just the lights. There's nothing on TV on a Sat anyway. If I remember I'll do it. We can play Rummy - o.
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 3:16pm |
Yeah just the lights - which if 1 billion people across the earth all have their lights off will save soo much energy! Dh will still have to be watching the rugby so the tv will still be on. But I'll turn the lights and any applicances off (yes even my laptop! I'm sure I can cope for an hour )
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 9:19pm |
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THERE WAS ONE LAST YEAR?? Totally missed that one!
italiah - your laptop has a battery??? soyou still can surf the net without using power!
As for me - yup I shall be doing it - Dh is out for the night (stag do) and no doubt just me and the kids - and Rhylz will be in bed so I don't see why not!
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Posted: 26 March 2009 at 9:26pm |
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I plan on doing it too! Although its not much different to how we live every day. Last year all our lights died and we were to lazy to fix them so spent the whole winter living with just one bedside table lamp lighting the whole house.
Think I might have to make an effort to turn off the rest of the appliances using power, now that will be a challenge!
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Posted: 27 March 2009 at 8:01am |
We'll be doing it also. We'll try turning everything off at first but I'm pretty sure we're not going to know what to do with ourselves with no tv or comp We'll probably fall asleep after 20 minutes.
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Posted: 28 March 2009 at 8:43pm |
LIGHTS OUT!! 
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Posted: 28 March 2009 at 8:48pm |
 Chickaboo wrote:
italiah - your laptop has a battery??? soyou still can surf the net without using power!
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Not if she's using a wireless network - or broadband, come to think of it...
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Posted: 28 March 2009 at 9:57pm |
Who did it?! We did i came home from work to a candlelit dinner and everything powered off!! Then we got to BDing sorry TMI but we figured it was a good time as any! Then we sat and made shadow puppets lol there was light streaming in from the street lamp outside!! It was cool to not use anything at all for an hour we had fun you forget wat its like though huh! dont think i wasnt straight back on OHB afterwards tho lol!
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Posted: 28 March 2009 at 9:59pm |
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Nope, was still cooking dinner and then studying.
I thought of the planet but that was my contribution....
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Posted: 28 March 2009 at 10:14pm |
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I did it - sorta - Rhylz got to bed late due to unexpected visitors - so had to leave the hall way light on so he could sleep but all rest was off - and excpet for internet I didn't have tv on either....
Think I did my bit - was a bit disapointed that the street lights weren't turned off for an hour but hey.....local government for ya!
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Posted: 29 March 2009 at 7:42pm |
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We did it, we started early and did it for 90 minutes. They should do this more often, that would really be awesome. Not super hard to do (most of the time).
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