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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Is there a Statute of Limitations in the UK?Many years (20+) ago a couple of friends and myself were playing in a ditch (Immingham B3tans represent!) just after the corn had been harvested, so there was a crapload of straw available for anyone who wanted it. We filled the ditch with straw and jumped up and down on it a bit and all sorts.
Somewhere along the line we graduated to setting fire to bits of it and watching it float down the ditch until it sank and went out. For a laugh I lit a piece and threw it under my mates arse (we were squatting down so as not to be seen) thinking it would be funny..
Naturally it caught, and started spreading. We tried to stamp it out for a few seconds but it spread along about 100 yards of this bank, burning everything in its path. We legged it along the ditch (keeping out of sight) and emerged further up just as the fire engines arrived.
My mum found out about this a year or so ago - she thought it was hilarious.
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Biggus Dickus , it was like that when I found it, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 14:00,
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