Got to tell this to someone who might be half interested in humouring me...
Finished my "domestics" at 4.30pm and went off to the garage to kill time before the footie results. Spotted my bowdrill kit lying under the bench and thought I'd have yet another go at moving on from glowing coal and smokey tinder (it's at this point that I usually run out of time, patience and energy).....
Anyway, at about the seventh attempt, breathless and getting ever nearer collapse, I decided to increase the size of my bundle of straw and rosebay willowherb for one last attempt......end result, a garage floor with a pile of flames leaping from the straw and smoke billowing all over the place. After a quick stamp on the floor to extinguish the fire and the windows open for 10 minutes, as well as a quick jig of celebration around the lawn I've retired to the house (stinking of smoke according to my other half) for a "tinnie" to celebrate. Sad or what.............!
As they say, can anyone else remember "the first time"?
Finished my "domestics" at 4.30pm and went off to the garage to kill time before the footie results. Spotted my bowdrill kit lying under the bench and thought I'd have yet another go at moving on from glowing coal and smokey tinder (it's at this point that I usually run out of time, patience and energy).....
Anyway, at about the seventh attempt, breathless and getting ever nearer collapse, I decided to increase the size of my bundle of straw and rosebay willowherb for one last attempt......end result, a garage floor with a pile of flames leaping from the straw and smoke billowing all over the place. After a quick stamp on the floor to extinguish the fire and the windows open for 10 minutes, as well as a quick jig of celebration around the lawn I've retired to the house (stinking of smoke according to my other half) for a "tinnie" to celebrate. Sad or what.............!
As they say, can anyone else remember "the first time"?