A Blaze of a Week

A blaze in many ways!
So much to do. We are renovating house for which we have a tenant, the work is coming along brilliantly, however the tenant is due to move in next Saturday!, the house was never going to be ready. So influx of family (what would we do without them) to paint clear up etc, yesterdays glorious day was given over to painting the upstairs bedrooms.
Today as it is James' birthday (9) I have a reprieve, Philip however has a life sentence, so he's off there again until party time ( I think he'd rather paint!)
The other type of Blaze is such as when you set the muck heap on fire!!!!!!!!!
Yes I did. I went to burn some of my rubbish last Saturday, about half an hour later I looked out of the window and as i saw smoke still blowing down the filed I thought 'oh that fire is still burning well', after further investigation I discovered that a spark had gone onto the very very dry straw in the muck heap and was merrily burning away!
The children and I evacuated the tiddlings from the shed, not quite ready to be grilled yet! and then I phoned Philip up at Aberwystwyth Farmers market to see what I should do? (at this stage I was cringing thinking I may well have to phone the fire brigade and tell them I had set a muck heap on fire!) Philip told me to take a shovel and go and beat it out. So after telling the children to keep an eye on me, and if anything should happen to phone 999 straight away I went to beat out the fire, which of course wouldn't be beaten! Every breath of wind flamed a new flame, and still it smouldered. Luckily at lunch time Colin arrived (always trust a farmer to arrive when there should be food!) and after his experienced inspection and shovelling several fork loads of dry straw and muck away from the fence around the fold to the shed, he declared it would smoulder itself out, if not dial 999........ thanks Colin!