Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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4th postWhen I was just a little lad I lived in a nice town in Germany. Germany has a lot of old traditions and things, moreso celebrated in smaller towns.
One of these is some kind of annual festival involving carrying lanterns around. I think it might have had a vaguely religious background, probably in celebration of a saint or something for all I know. Anyway, all the lil'uns (me included) would make these flimsy paper lanterns and put those small candles in them. Then we'd walk up to somewhere with them, do something and walk home. This was a long time ago, bear in mind. When we got to the kindergarten I was *apparently* shaking my lantern too much and it started burning. I dropped it and watched it burn. A little while later the old people i was with saw this and started trying to put out the fire and stuff. I had chosen to drop my lantern in a pile of leaf litter or something. I was amused.
What, were you expecting something interesting?
(, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:20, Reply)
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