bonfires

[Andy Collins]

:lol:

[Matthew Arnold]

I stupidly put the apprentice in charge of gettin a fire going. He had 3 sunday papers, an onion bag full of super dry kindling and loads of silver birch, oak and hazel tips to get a good base on it before loading the holly. I left him to it and two hours later during our mid mornin break he started coming up with every excuse in the book (kindling was damp, paper was damp, etc,etc). 30 mins after the mid morning break i had a crack at the fire of which there was barely a base to speak of. It didnt take long to become a decent raging fire. You can see the pics of it in the burn up thread.