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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Purple hairspray or cloud of black smoke - you chooseNot sure which one to choose so here's both. When I've had a wee drinky I like to set fire to things. About 6 years ago I was round at a mate's house and we decided to have a bonfire. His wife wasn't very happy with this as she'd just hung out her washing. Unfortunately we soon ran out of wood so had to find other stuff to throw on the fire. The aerosols were great but still didn't satisfy the need. Then we found the fibreglass bonnet of a frog-eye sprite that Cookie was gonna sell. The most amazing black smoke cloud ever. Proper cloud shape and everything. It went up and hovered over the house for a couple of minutes then set off across the Fens still in cloud shape. The next week it was immortalised forever (or at least one week) in the local rags letter page - a couple of letters wondering what it was and a cartoon drawing with some humorous quip about UFOs.
Purple hairspray was only last year and still have the purple speckled ceiling to remind me. How was I to know if you leave a candle burning on a wooden fireplace that it would eventually burn down and set fire to the mantel. Didn't actually see the can go up in flames but I definitely heard it. Would take ages to get a paint effect like that...
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