Thank you Sian for giving me the impetus to post something, anything on my blog. Talk about January blues, blue and definitely black the first few weeks of the year have been over here.
Lets hope this bright but cold morning, a photo and a memory will help spur me on.
Ben reminded me, as I was taking a photo of this picture, (I had a plan for it).
“Do you remember the Christmas you & nanny were drunk and laughing so much you didn’t realise you nearly burnt the house down!”
Now we certainly were not drunk, tipsy maybe, merry possibly, but we were laughing, definitely laughing a great deal together and although we noticed a strange smell we didn’t realise that a candle flame was slowly toasting the paper frame that this picture was hanging in.
I keep the picture in the charred frame as a reminder that laughing and candlelight are beautiful but have a care with a burning flame.
Thank you Sian for this wonderful party full to the brim with stories both long and short, word wise, not height wise!
I am so glad that the house didn’t burn down!!!!! Don’t you love it when kids remind you of things like that 😀
It definitely looks like a picture worth saving especially with both memories and a warning attached!
The colors in this are gorgeous! After the fire here this week, that is one scary story!
kids, they never let you forget!!!
I love it when kids exaggerate things like that 🙂
A great story and I am happy the outcome was only a burn’t frame. Thank you for sharing the memory.
Phew! Great photo – and hope he manages to retell it differently to his teachers. 🙂
Argh..just lost my comment…this is a lovely short story Miriam. It gave me a smile (at you giggling, not at the thought of everywhere burning down of course..) Thanks for joining in this month Miriam. It’s always a pleasure
Glad the picture AND the house survived the incident!
Alison xx
So glad that the picture and your house survived! Children never let you forgot things do they?!
I love that you kept the picture in the charred frame.
Oh – glad you caught it in time and what a good reminder. Hope this helps blow away those January blues.
January blues, ahhh, you are not alone. I too have been better at this time of the year…. It will pass.
Kids recollect things quite differently from adults I have learnt! A great little story Miriam!
That was a close call! I hope your February and more will be sunnier.
Love the story! Here’s to burnt frames!