I have just returned from holiday in a fantastic cottage that I want to live in. I massively impressed my son by lighting a log fire and keeping it lit - he thinks I'm brilliant now! The fact is, I lived in places in the countryside when I was younger where coal fires were the only form of heating. When we ran out of coal, we used to go out and gather pine cones and bits of wood for the fire. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it? It was bloody freezing!
I'm now catching up with my e-mails (about 72 of which are ones trying to get me to buy viagra or watch porn) and trying to get all the washing done. I've had a touch of PHB (post holiday blues) as I've come home and found that the damp walls in my bedroom haven't magically healed themselves, and a slug that had somehow gotten in had left trails all over my carpets. My house sitter couldn't find it, but I located it - by standing on it with my bare foot in the middle of the night. Nice.
Clare
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Nice! I used to work in a recording studio and we often had to work late in to the night, in fact sometimes we worked for days and days, anyway, we had slugs that would come out at night and often get meet a sticky end under a barefoot! Horrible. Impressed by your firelighting - never tried pine cones, but will now. The things you learn from bloggers!
Hello Clare-
Nice to read that you had a good holiday.
Sounds like you were just as 'brilliant' as the log fire that you managed to keep lit. (Hope you were not using one of those 'cheater' logs like I have used in Canada such a 'Duraflame')
Have fun with all your e-mails. I shall not ask when you are expecting the delivery of the viagara and the porn :-)
In so far as slippery slugs..well..Yuk! Get enough of them thar critters and you could have a 'slug fest'. (I recall putting my bare feet on a giant cockroach in my hotel room in Cancun. Now that was gross!)
Thanks for your comment on my most recent blog. Right then, time to go out the front door.
Kind regards Klahanie.
Hi Clare,
I also recall having to light 'real coal' fires, (messy and time consuming) but upon reflection well worth the effort! I adore real log/coal fires.(so cosy!)
Glad you had an enjoyable holiday....thank you for your comments on my most recent post....and I will indeed give your regards to Rio!.....D x
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