mmmm, toasty warm
When I was a wee spikeypickle, all off 15years old, I awoke in the wee small hours in need of a piss and with a tickly throat. I tootled off across the landing to the toilet, had my wee and tootled back to my room and snuggled back into my nice warm bed. Mmmm, toasty.

A couple of minutes later I heard my mum getting up. Being around 5am I assumed she was off for a wee so wasn't quite sure why she was in my room.

"Spikeypickle, is something burning in here?"
"No mother" grunted I in return.
"Erm, best get up son, your beds on fire"

Yup, my bed had been burning away which explained the toasty toes and tickly throat (accrid smoke) and I'd woke up, had a piss then got back in!

The reason the bed was burning was that I used the little light on the electric blanket control to look at my watch then went back to sleep without turning it off. The blanket got scrunched at the end of the bed and made the end so warm and toasty that it set it on fire.

Obviously getting back in to a burning bed is a bit daft. My dad throwing water on a electrical fire probably wasn't to clever either.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:36, Reply)