Last night as we watched the ten
o’clock news on the BBC on our television there was a loud whooshing bang and
the house sort of gave a very gentle leap to the West, so we all looked at one
another and went off to find out what had happened as it could have been
anything from the long expected Zombie attack or Aliens or the unpredicted End
of the World. Actually that last one would
be rather amusing, after all folk have predicted the end of the world almost
from the start of the world so if it turned up unannounced everyone would be dead
annoyed (or dead).
As it turned
out it was in fact one of our neighbours who is moving house and rather than
take all the stuff in it, he has decided to torch it. He had a fairly big bonfire the other week and
last night he set fire to beds, mattresses, pictures, chairs, the piano, the
gas cooker, the television, the bath, and the one everyone knows the kitchen
sink. Of course some of this stuff does not burn to well so he had made sure it
would burn by adding a large tin full of petrol and then as they say lit the
blue touch paper and ran like hell; well not so much ran as sailed through
the sky with a trail of smoke behind him….
I did run in to
grab my camera but missed getting a photo of the really big flames as petrol
and mattress burns really fast. His immediate neighbour kept guard for a while
because he was (the chap who started it) running back and fore to his house
with buckets of water as the long grass which was rather dry due to the recent
heat was burning rather well also. Its WELL COOL (OK hot) living out in the
wilds, as loads of wild things happen that are dead exciting….
Oooooooo yes we
are off out for a meal tonight so this is it for now………
My heart and ear drums ache at the tragic loss of a piano. And I am in definite need of a piano.
ReplyDeleteThere are some very old and seriously out of tune pianos around these parts Mr ESB that are best put on a fire or turned into art....
DeleteI used to have an old Italian Electronic piano but it set itself on fire while I was trying to play it. My playing was bad but not so bad a piano would set itself on fire . . . . well?
I would like a Yamaha synthesizer but my wife saw the $3,000 price tag and her response was not so overwhelmingly positive. I do have a few keyboard apps on my iPad that cost veRy little but I am not in a music mode mood at this moment.
DeleteThere are many things that attract the minds of men, I too leap from one to another over time.....
DeleteThat's really a wonderful, quirky thing to get to experience! My neighbors have never set fire to anything, just called the fire department when we started a fire in our (later determined when said fire department arrived to investigate the scene as a "well on your way to a legal fire pit") fire pit. Now it's too hot to think about fire. I'd rather think about ice caves and that wonderful bar in XXX (the one with Vin Diesel) made entirely of ice...
ReplyDeleteTina @ Life is Good
I have not heard of a bar made of ice I will investigate, but I have heard of an iron bar . . . . . . . HAH HAHHHAHH HAH HAH AH HHAH AH AH Hah ah ha hahah ha hah ah ha hah ahahha....
DeleteWe did think about phoning the fire brigade but he was almost in control of his fire, and it looks great...
What an eccentric maniac. How awesome to have so much money and be so puddled that you can torch all your worldly goods because moving them is a hassle. Hop he doesn't have pets.
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