More Than I Bargained For

[poliphilo]

I took a load of out-of-date tax papers to the burn site, put them down alongside a winter's worth of accumulated garden rubbish and struck a match. We've had a spell of dry weather. A few minutes later Lee next door rang Ailz to ask if we knew there was a huge fire in our field.

It was under control, sort of, but I was having to stand well clear.