Burn baby, burn.
Mar 13th 2009, 10:22 am
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Re: Burn baby, burn.
Onions are also good if you've got the beginning of a chimney fire.
We were (rather foolishly) burning processionary caterpillar nests in our fireplace this evening and the next door neighbour came to inform us that our chimney was on fire! My French OH immediately chopped up a lot of onions and threw them onto the fire and, within a few minutes, it was all extinguished. Maybe it was coincidence, but I'll always make sure I've got a good stock of onions in the future!
P.S. Off topic, but do you have these awful processionary caterpillars in Spain?
We were (rather foolishly) burning processionary caterpillar nests in our fireplace this evening and the next door neighbour came to inform us that our chimney was on fire! My French OH immediately chopped up a lot of onions and threw them onto the fire and, within a few minutes, it was all extinguished. Maybe it was coincidence, but I'll always make sure I've got a good stock of onions in the future!
P.S. Off topic, but do you have these awful processionary caterpillars in Spain?
Mar 13th 2009, 10:20 pm
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Mar 14th 2009, 12:57 am
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Mar 14th 2009, 2:41 am
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Re: Burn baby, burn.
They maybe known under a different name but they do exist, back in the 80's in South East London we had a dreadful outbreak of them, they look the same and have the same effect on both people and animals will see if I can find some info on it.
Here you
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...mer-north.html
if you google poisonous caterpillars in London you will get a few articals.
Last edited by crispy; Mar 14th 2009 at 2:47 am.
Mar 14th 2009, 11:09 am
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Re: Burn baby, burn.
Hmmmmmmm I like your Penguin aviator matt...... Now what do we know about you.... lets see.............
Scared me when I first saw this. But I have had a lay down on the Chaise Longue and feel much better.
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Mar 14th 2009, 9:18 pm
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Re: Burn baby, burn.
Onions are also good if you've got the beginning of a chimney fire.
We were (rather foolishly) burning processionary caterpillar nests in our fireplace this evening and the next door neighbour came to inform us that our chimney was on fire! My French OH immediately chopped up a lot of onions and threw them onto the fire and, within a few minutes, it was all extinguished. Maybe it was coincidence, but I'll always make sure I've got a good stock of onions in the future!
P.S. Off topic, but do you have these awful processionary caterpillars in Spain?
We were (rather foolishly) burning processionary caterpillar nests in our fireplace this evening and the next door neighbour came to inform us that our chimney was on fire! My French OH immediately chopped up a lot of onions and threw them onto the fire and, within a few minutes, it was all extinguished. Maybe it was coincidence, but I'll always make sure I've got a good stock of onions in the future!
P.S. Off topic, but do you have these awful processionary caterpillars in Spain?
it's just the steam that smothers the fire, but even better, get your chimney swept regularly.
Mar 14th 2009, 10:44 pm
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Re: Burn baby, burn.
I always remember my mum sprinkling salt on the fire to kill it.
Mar 15th 2009, 12:45 am
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Mar 15th 2009, 7:51 am
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Re: Burn baby, burn.
We had our chimney swept last autumn! And our kindly neighbour said that you should never throw water on the fire - oxygen is released, which accelerates combustion... Yet another neighbour always has some sort of sulphur powder to hand, which apparently smothers it. Sand or earth would also be OK. Anyway, OH's onions did the job.
Mar 15th 2009, 7:55 am
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Mar 15th 2009, 8:20 am
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