Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

The local fire engine just passed here.....:o:o

Glad the air ambulance was quicker three weeks ago. According to the injured chap's Mum, it was here in 4 minutes! :T

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Speaking of fires, we have a biggie a mile or two north east of us at the moment. I think it's stubble burning or some such, as I don't see any blue flashing lights.....

...Tell a lie, the blue flashing lights are appearing! :eek::eek:

Edit: Of course, it would be a daft time to be doing any kind of controlled burning!

It's the right time for swaling but the wind is too high - here, anyway.
We had a fire engine go down our lane today :eek: 2nd one in 26 years :rotfl: Lights flashing but no sirens. No sign of smoke. Possibly just doing checks & on way to pub
They usually burn stubble around September, AFAIK. The ground has to be ploughed & planted again.

lostinrates

Isn't stubble burning banned now?

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Isn't stubble burning banned now?

It's definitely frowned on & discouraged but I'm not sure it's totally banned.

Edit: Apparently it has (although they stipulate various things so maybe there are exceptions, I don't know) but there's a campaign to bring it back.
Some areas (like ours) can still do controlled burning for regeneration of heather etc.

Found the regs. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1366/schedule/2/made It isn't so much totally banned as made almost bl**dy impossible :rotfl:

choille

Hi All,

They muir burn here. There's been a lot of pretty serious wild fires.

Had a 500mile round trip yesterday to collect some things \I had stored, feel completely jiggered today.

Quite cold, but still dry.

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

It's the right time for swaling but the wind is too high - here, anyway.

Yes, there's too much wind, and it wasn't there earlier, so not the right time to start.

Anyway, they've got it sorted. Just a dull glow now. :T

And I don't think that was our fire engine, as it would surely have gone another way. It might have been a police vehicle; it just flashed past my view through the binoculars.

Oh well, excitement over. We can do without that kind.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Had a 500mile round trip yesterday to collect some things \I had stored, feel completely jiggered today.

In 2009 we did a couple of 200mile journeys to water the plants:o... but 500miles! :eek:

You need a shed nearer to home!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, there's too much wind, and it wasn't there earlier, so not the right time to start.

Anyway, they've got it sorted. Just a dull glow now. :T

And I don't think that was our fire engine, as it would surely have gone another way. It might have been a police vehicle; it just flashed past my view through the binoculars.

Oh well, excitement over. We can do without that kind.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: talk about curtain twitching.. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

i have this image of queen vic peering with binoculors and giving a running commentary .

:rotfl::rotfl: we know whats happened before your locals :rotfl::rotfl:

choille

Dave sounds rather like a bad egg about?

I've missed all the stuff about this but sounds like a nasty situation.

I'd stuff stored at my late parent's house and needed to get it out as there are plans afoot by my brothers.

It's quite emotionally draining as well as physically exhausting. And quite liberating in some ways being a good distance away.......

ferretkeeper

We've had a lot of fires here recently, one was going all day today - nothing to do with your hubby was it CTC?! One of my dogs howls like a wolf at the fire engine siren - not ambulances or police cars, so I know when it's a fire. Sets the rest off and then all the neighbours dogs start, nightmare :rotfl:

No, according to the gossip at the local feed merchant it's a known farmer illegally burning the gorse, it's been very windy so not clever, and people's houses have been in danger before now. The mountain is common land and by all accounts is overgrazed so they burn the gorse to make way for grass, don't know how effective it is judging by the state of the rest of the "grass".

A few years ago I was driving home from work late at night and actually stopped the car to look at the fires on the mountain, I'd never seen anything like it, quite a sight, pretty scary up close I bet :eek:

There is still literally bog all for animals to eat, mountain grazing or otherwise, I'm going through hay like nobody's business, no greenery appearing yet.

Dave, how lucky to have three medlars, I don't like them much to eat as they are but they go great in appley things, adds something special to the taste. Once I made medlar jelly and put the pulp in a chutney, must have nicked the idea off River Cottage, but both were lovely!

And yes a gorgeous tree to look at, I think I might put one as a specimen out the front of our house...