We made this bonfire last year when we were clearing out stuff for last years sale.
We kept adding to it but today was the day!
Bad forecast for the next couple of weeks so we lit it!
The very nicest thing about this picture is that blue book you can see there. There were about ten of them in total each holding about four years farm accounts.
I toiled many a year over those darn books doing the accounts & the VAT.
Good riddance!!
Our nephew has also been & moved all our stone troughs & planters to his place for the winter.
Three good things:
1. The little bit of wind was blowing away from the houses.
2. A grateful neighbour when I took her washing in before we lit it.
3. A nasty crash at the end of our road in the last half hour but no major injuries thank goodness. I pity the people on their way home from work with a big detour. Will be so happy to move away from that hill!
Pleased for you that all the house issues and concerns will soon be history. This reminds me of L P Hartley's book, The Go Between. The opening sentence reads 'The past is a different country; they do things differently there.
@s4sayer I’m not familiar with that book Margo...I know the author but not read any of his yet...I will get it up on my kindle. Thank you. I think the example is very apt!
@gijsje Ooh really Bep? There are areas where you can’t burn stuff in the UK but here we are OK. No tyres or anything toxic of course...if there had been black smoke they would have been onto us!
Ooh I do love a bonfire , a quick way to get rid of all the unwanted paperwork - - we can't have bonfires here and I have no suitable piece of land to light one anyway !! Like Judith we have rain all day - so you were lucky with the weather !
Bye bye to all those accounts books! I trained as a farm secretary way back in the olden days before computerised accounts. Hated accounts so never went into farming as that's all I would have been doing.
@julzmaioro No indeed they were never going with us....we have to keep the accounts fir seven years after we finished being in business so well last that date now!
Pat, we will just have the rooms downstairs and the stairs and landing decorated, as the bedrooms aren't too bad. Two of the bedrooms I had recently redecorated, so the guys just used a dust remover in the bedrooms and cleaned the windows. they were very thorough!
Lucky to be able to do this. I feel the same way with all the boxes of accounts - huge amount of work and in the last year, its just given me a headache. I can rubbish all the accounts over 10 years.
@onewing You are so right Babs....I never thought of that! Hope David is feeling better & blood thinners working...they will be keeping an eye on him closely I would imagine.
Love that you are in an area that can have a proper bonfire! Not allowed around here (smokeless zone and all that). As a child, we always built a huge one in the fields opposite for weeks ahead of Bonfire Night. Loved it. Happy days.
Must be fantastic to see those blue books go up! Teenager and I loved shredding his old school books too!
Were I there I'd be staring into that fire, I love the warm that a outdoor fire give off, and I'm always reminded of past bonfire nights when we would put potatoes in the hot ash to cook. Great capture of the flames.
October 5th, 2020
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Must be fantastic to see those blue books go up! Teenager and I loved shredding his old school books too!