Today my flat mostly smells of ...

Categories: home

Tags: fire, home

Date: 30 May 2006 20:18:16

... singed hair.

A few of my regular readers have visited the Stately Pile and will no doubt remember the particularly beautiful fireplace (mmm, stone cladding). As if that weren't beautiful enough, the fire (which reaches new heights of ugliness) has a rubbish ignition, so I'm reduced to using (short) matches to light it. Despite it being summer, this evening it's quite cold, and despite my best attempts at lighting the fire with matches it took ages to light (all the time spewing out gas while I tried).

Thank goodness I haven't got bushy eyebrows. Phooey.