Hoovering the fire
I was in a hurry to get all the housework done last night, as my wife goes bananas if she comes in late and everything isnt done.

I'd already lit the woodburner, and was hoovering the ashes from the hearth. I opened the burner door and hoovered some ashes from the edge that were about to drop.

Some red hot embersw whoosed up the tube, but I thought nothing of it and carried on blithely.

A minute later I smelt a nasty burning smell - of course! hot embers on a bed of dry dust with a strong air flow over them. A sort of miniature blast furnace!

Oh dear, red sparks flying out the air vents, and a nasty nasty lingering smell.

I havent checked the hoover yet, I think its OK.
I had a cigar to cover the smell, the gruppenfuhrer is none the wiser.

Oops
(Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 15:43, 4 replies)

"I was in a hurry to get all the housework done last night, as my wife goes bananas if she comes in late and everything isnt done."
Hey Chris, could you fly over here and have a little talk with my husband? I think he'd (really me)could benefit from the wonderful high spousal standards you lot embody.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 15:49, closed)

Until
She uses the hoover and it blows the dust out as fast as she's sucking it up?!?!

Don't be so pussy-whipped anyway, just do a circle in the middle and she'll begrudgingly do it herself while muttering about 'standards'.

(Experience so far!)
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 15:50, closed)

Have you hoovered?
Can't you tell?
have you?
If you can't tell what does it matter?
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 16:00, closed)

^
This.
(puerile is really getting into seagulls lately., Thu 27 Dec 2007, 23:22, closed)