Do you think I over did it stoking up the fire?
Feb 9th 2007, 8:39 am
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Re: Do you think I over did it stoking up the fire?
One Christmas (Boxing Day I think) my brother threw an empty crisp packet into the fire. It flew up the chimney and the next thing we knew was the flames shooting straight up the chimney
it was before fire brigades used a 'hoover' to put out a chimney fire so before they arrived we had to take down the Christmas tree (and all the decorations), put it outside the house, take up the carpet, wait for the 'men' to put the fire out, put back down the carpet ...... and then my father made us decorate the tree again
"bad luck to take it down before 6 January". That scarred my sister and I. We've never forgotten it.
it was before fire brigades used a 'hoover' to put out a chimney fire so before they arrived we had to take down the Christmas tree (and all the decorations), put it outside the house, take up the carpet, wait for the 'men' to put the fire out, put back down the carpet ...... and then my father made us decorate the tree again "bad luck to take it down before 6 January". That scarred my sister and I. We've never forgotten it.
Feb 9th 2007, 8:39 am
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Re: Do you think I over did it stoking up the fire?
... I told a kiwi that here and he fell about laughing, he had never heard of it 
Ours was the same as yours except it was built into a fireplace space and then up the chimney! The flue collapsed into the inside of the fire (dunno what they're called!) luckily my hubby was home lol
Feb 9th 2007, 8:44 am
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Re: Do you think I over did it stoking up the fire?
Yep - ours was a metal flue - thats what I meant d'oh! Briquettes = BBQ charcoal!
Ours was the same as yours except it was built into a fireplace space and then up the chimney! The flue collapsed into the inside of the fire (dunno what they're called!) luckily my hubby was home lol
Ours was the same as yours except it was built into a fireplace space and then up the chimney! The flue collapsed into the inside of the fire (dunno what they're called!) luckily my hubby was home lol
Feb 9th 2007, 8:46 am
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Re: Do you think I over did it stoking up the fire?
One Christmas (Boxing Day I think) my brother threw an empty crisp packet into the fire. It flew up the chimney and the next thing we knew was the flames shooting straight up the chimney it was before fire brigades used a 'hoover' to put out a chimney fire so before they arrived we had to take down the Christmas tree (and all the decorations), put it outside the house, take up the carpet, wait for the 'men' to put the fire out, put back down the carpet ...... and then my father made us decorate the tree again "bad luck to take it down before 6 January". That scarred my sister and I. We've never forgotten it.
it was before fire brigades used a 'hoover' to put out a chimney fire so before they arrived we had to take down the Christmas tree (and all the decorations), put it outside the house, take up the carpet, wait for the 'men' to put the fire out, put back down the carpet ...... and then my father made us decorate the tree again "bad luck to take it down before 6 January". That scarred my sister and I. We've never forgotten it. Probably an insane thing to do but as a child they made me think it was a perfectly normal occurance!Like I said the neighbours hated us ... well not us, mostly our dad whom my mum blamed the fires on
Feb 9th 2007, 10:19 am
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Feb 9th 2007, 12:19 pm
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