Tuesday, September 14, 2004

All burned out!

When we were young and bored .. we played games in the front garden ... we stuck a used matchstick in an empty matchbox and pretended they were walkie talkies and we were secret agents ... Nowadays youngsters play with full matchboxes and do a great impression of delinquents by stealing cars and setting them on fire.

Not a nice thing to wake up to at five o'clock on a Sunday morning. Nonetheless, had a nice chat with the neighbours and some dashing firemen, watched the flames die out and the sun rising over the horizon. The neighbours were up very early replacing the burnt slats of their fence and as we spoke over the garden fence, we had to laugh at the passers-by who marvelled how the car was completely burnt but the fence was in perfect condition.

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