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I don't think these fires are deliberate. As I say, the path is well used, and each fire has quickly been sorted. Talking with the two ladies that discovered and dealt with the last two fires, I have an idea that it is n old chap who chain smokes as he walks along the path. He's very doddery...

The lesser spotted Boris Johnson's dad! Only learned who he was later in the afternoon. Pretty wild eh? Just sat outside a cafe having a cuppa, and he sat on the next table, and starts chatting, and asking me questions. Thought nothing of it, until he turned up at the film club and...

Well, it's all dried up now, back to square one. Spoke to the head of the national park this morning. Guess what? Not their responsibility, go talk to so and so on the local council. So we have to ask the park for permission to put up solar panels, but its not their remit to speak to the...

We have had a little rain overnight. What a blessing! Not enough, by any means, even though I left my dry washing on the line overnight as I forgot to bring it in, and it's now wet again, im very happy. Let's hope this will dampen down the dry leaves and grass enough to make the prospect of...

Ciggies filters are not made of fibre glass! They are made of cellulose acetate a type of wood pulp. Smoking fibre glass is not a very good idea. Google it if you don't believe me. I've worked with fibre glass. Inhaling it is not a good idea. You can burn butt ends if the fire is hot enough...

Trouble is, we are now edging towards the boy who called Wolf scenario. You know how that ended. Perhaps that is why the gov recently bought thousands of body bags, and set up a mega mortuary to cope with thousands of mortalities at once. I don't remember quite so many fires and so much utter...

Maybe you should. At least you would be ready to deploy should the need arise, instead of wasting time hunting for it in a shed and then connecting it up. Time wasted. Have it on the tap ready. It's a few moments preperation, hopefully not needed, but time can be of the essence in a situation...

I've asked all my neighbours...Well most of them, ro keep their longest garden hoses attached to their outside taps ready to go. Most agreed, it made sense. Better safe than sorry. At least we have a chance to help control anything before the brigade arrive.

Your first questions, no idea, but we are presuming it was discarded cigarettes. I finaly cut the long grass on the south facing front lawn last week. It is now a brown easily ignited area. My gardener used a leaf blower to get rid of as much dusty debris as we could. Mine also, very...

Another small fire along our path into town last week. That's 3 now. ! All in 900 yards over 3 weeks.

I guess that, as with me, we read the first line, and thought, "oh for goodness sake," or words to that effect, and switched it off. I certainly did not more than that. To my mind, it was ridiculous, and not what the system is for. If it was a test of the system, we should have known, as...

Fire runs uphill faster due to rising heat, so heading downhill, possibly towards a river where you can wade in and take refuge by submersing yourself, and if using a bandana or .makeshift mask, wet it. That realy helps .keep as low as possible.

If it works, it's not out of date.

I'm very sure they are. It's happening everywhere...except where certain types of people used to live before they spread to Europe...now that is a conspiracy theory to work with. Plus there is a pressing need to destroy farmland and build these new ai centres what for...I have no idea of course. ;)

What would suitable material be for home made ones.?

I'm one house away from a field and large trees. The field has 3 foot high dry standing hay. If that caught...it doesn't bear thinking about the path into town runs alongside this field.. its a worry as the fires are along this path, one was opposite the field and, but for quick thinking and...

True, I remember seeing them in the past, but not for years. They are usualy made of heavy rubber. Thinking you could use a rubber door mat cut in half to make a couple of fire beaters easy enough. Tried to find where I could buy one localy, but everywhere is out of stock, and the only ones left...

So who got the no bbq's alert and thought we all had minutes to live? I didn't even read it just hit OK and went back to my crossword. Incidently another fire along the path into town yesterday. That's 3 now in two weeks. I complained to the council that the dead leaves need removing, so they...

Last night, two friends and I went up to the top of the moor to watch the eclipse. There were tons of people there, but we just managed to find a spot to park up and face the sunset. We watched the eclipse with one pair of solar glasses between , so we had a lot of fun taking turns and...

Some extra shelves from a local shop that is closing down...yes ..yet another one.