@sweetntasty 352768 wrote:
Would love to live in a house with a huge open fire at Christmas time….
I work out in the sticks and there is this couple what own the old farmhouse in the converted farm area I work in (my office is in the old stables)
this couple are a bit like that two out of the old telly show called “the good life” (which myself and sweetandtasty will probably remember but some younger people won’t. (it was about a hippy couple trying to live a self-sufficient life etc)
anyway they tried to light their open fire around Autumn (as it was cold and pissing down with rain) – I was in my office at the time, next thing I know I heard nee-naws ( we still use them here) and there was blue flashing lights in the courtyard and Suffolk Fire and Rescue in attendance…
I ended up running out of my office in the rain, thinking we were all having to evacuate (at one point I thought the Gipping had burst its banks and we would all be flooded) and was gonna see if I could get enough time to shut down the servers cleanly and turn off the electric but the firemen said it was just a chimney fire.. the couple hadn’t realised the chinmey needed to be swept and it was stopped up with a birds nest or other rubbish – leading to the house filling with smoke and the chimney catching fire….
I was glad that everyone was OK, that I wasn’t going to have to stand on my desk in a darkend office with rising water levels and impressed with the quick action of the Fire Brigade but a but pissed off I had left my office and ended up out in the rain for a relatively minor incident.
