Another one of those days where it is difficult to understand where it went. Sara hoisted the Dutch flag today as we had promised to fly it for Tom who had brought it back from his trip to Holland. Molly and Mary took themselves off to school this morning and Sara set off shortly afterwards to help prepare the coffee and cake/bring and buy morning at Jan's in Yarmley Lane. They were putting this on to raise money for Oasis House, one of the Alabare Christian Care Centres for the Homeless in Romsey. The churches in Winterslow are helping to raise sufficient money to furnish the house to a very reasonable standard for five homeless people. We have made it our Lenten Appeal. I went over at around 10.30 a.m. and Richard came over a little later. It was well attended and raised £322 - about half of the target total in one event. Well done Sara and Jan! This afternoon Jan and Richard came round and we chatted in the kitchen for some time. I went upstairs and had a lovely bath and read the material for our House Group meeting. Feeling quite relaxed, and the weather continuing to be icy cold with a bitter wind from the north-east, I decided it would be lovely to have a wood fire in the lounge for our visitors. I used dry logs which we had stored in the lounge and the small bits of wood which had been stored in the wheelbarrow and got a nice roaring fire going very easily. I decided to give Mum a call on the phone to let her know my proposed arrangements and timing for my trip to Grimsby next week. Whilst on the phone Sara came into the study to say the fire was making a funny noise. I abandoned my call to Mum when I immediately diagnosed a chimney fire. Going outside, sparks were flying out of the top of the stack - a clear indication of a conflagration going on inside the flue. I dialled 999 and called the fire brigade. They arrived in about 15 minutes from Salisbury by which time the fire had gone out. They took charge of the situation drawing the fire and putting a brush and water up inside the chimney. They put tarpaulin in the lounge and along the hall so as not to spoil our floors and also inspected the loft to ensure that there had been no fire leaking out into the roof. Within half and hour they had cleaned out the chimney and left the lounge immaculate. They were excellent acting very professionally and seemed very happy to make the trip out. Whilst they were in the middle of dealing with this crisis, members of the House Group started to arrive - bewildered by the fact they couldn't park their cars easily because of the presence of a fire engine. Even more shocked when they discovered that the fire brigade were attending us! Despite this "excitement" the House Group started in the lounge only ten minutes later than scheduled and we finished on time. Richard stayed behind for a drink and a natter. We have agreed to start our golfing off again next week.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Fire! Fire!
Another one of those days where it is difficult to understand where it went. Sara hoisted the Dutch flag today as we had promised to fly it for Tom who had brought it back from his trip to Holland. Molly and Mary took themselves off to school this morning and Sara set off shortly afterwards to help prepare the coffee and cake/bring and buy morning at Jan's in Yarmley Lane. They were putting this on to raise money for Oasis House, one of the Alabare Christian Care Centres for the Homeless in Romsey. The churches in Winterslow are helping to raise sufficient money to furnish the house to a very reasonable standard for five homeless people. We have made it our Lenten Appeal. I went over at around 10.30 a.m. and Richard came over a little later. It was well attended and raised £322 - about half of the target total in one event. Well done Sara and Jan! This afternoon Jan and Richard came round and we chatted in the kitchen for some time. I went upstairs and had a lovely bath and read the material for our House Group meeting. Feeling quite relaxed, and the weather continuing to be icy cold with a bitter wind from the north-east, I decided it would be lovely to have a wood fire in the lounge for our visitors. I used dry logs which we had stored in the lounge and the small bits of wood which had been stored in the wheelbarrow and got a nice roaring fire going very easily. I decided to give Mum a call on the phone to let her know my proposed arrangements and timing for my trip to Grimsby next week. Whilst on the phone Sara came into the study to say the fire was making a funny noise. I abandoned my call to Mum when I immediately diagnosed a chimney fire. Going outside, sparks were flying out of the top of the stack - a clear indication of a conflagration going on inside the flue. I dialled 999 and called the fire brigade. They arrived in about 15 minutes from Salisbury by which time the fire had gone out. They took charge of the situation drawing the fire and putting a brush and water up inside the chimney. They put tarpaulin in the lounge and along the hall so as not to spoil our floors and also inspected the loft to ensure that there had been no fire leaking out into the roof. Within half and hour they had cleaned out the chimney and left the lounge immaculate. They were excellent acting very professionally and seemed very happy to make the trip out. Whilst they were in the middle of dealing with this crisis, members of the House Group started to arrive - bewildered by the fact they couldn't park their cars easily because of the presence of a fire engine. Even more shocked when they discovered that the fire brigade were attending us! Despite this "excitement" the House Group started in the lounge only ten minutes later than scheduled and we finished on time. Richard stayed behind for a drink and a natter. We have agreed to start our golfing off again next week.
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