Saturday, 22 September 2018
Oh dear
Last night while my menfolk were out I decided I would get rid of all the paper that we have stuffed into the wood burner... bills, envelopes, receipts etc. BIG MISTAKE..... I struck a match to it and closed the door assuming it would all burst into flames... it did not.. It smoked and smouldered for ages. Silly me then decided that I would open the stove door and give everything a good poke around.... BIG MISTAKE NUMBER TWO... It filled the entire sitting room with belching smoke... Quickly closing the door I opened the doors to the garden and wafted and wofted to no avail. Tony and Alexander came home to a house that smelt like a kipper processing plant. It stills smells strongly of smoke now.. Worryingly though the smoke alarm didn't make a sound... I will have a look at that today and see what is wrong. Tony is off to the footie this afternoon and this evening I have my friend coming over for a glass of wine and a game of dominos... oh my word the exciting life I lead :-)
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Oh goodness....been there and done that. It's horrible isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOur smoke alarm was the same and yet it would wail for an eternity if you made a piece of toast in the kitchen which is the room behind where the fireplace is.
Have a lovely evening.
Hugs-x-
Oh no! I grew up in a home with wood/coal stoves so had some idea what to do when we bought ours and had a wood stove installed. Otherwise, it would have ended in a similar way. Paper/flame, why wouldn't it just combust, eh?
ReplyDeleteA glass of wine and a game of dominos sounds very nice to me. It's also frugal. I love to knit with a cup of coffee and my dog stretched out on the porch.
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