Sweetcorn and Loss
A rather sad post. In something of a freak accident part of my room has burnt down. Headed down to London to visit She Who Does Not Dig and sort out our moving house. I'm moving out of my current room and into a house with her next Friday and there are billion things to organise. To maximise light for my sweetcorn the curtains were draped over my armchair, which, crucially, meant they were touching my uplighter. It wasn't visibly on when I left, but its slider switch must have been on a tiny bit, because 36 hours after I left the house the curtains burst into flame. A housemate smelt it quite early, so the damage isn't total, the house is fine.
My stuff is not though. Mostly smoke and heat damage; but my sofa, speakers, armchair and other things have enough fire damage to make them skip material. Haven't assessed all the damage, but it's likely to be well over £1000, plus items of sentimental value which no insurance company can replace. Needless to say the sweetcorn that was enjoying the extra light is no longer with us. With this and moving house at the same time it's going to be quite a trying period.
On a more positive note, I went to the plot just before I left Birmingham and planted out half the sweetcorn, so hopefully they'll grow happily and show that life goes on.
No photos of them I'm afraid, I'll take some the next time I head to the plot.
This does mean my room is uninhabitable, and so I'm going to be all over the place until we move in to our new house, and so the plot and this blog might be neglected for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully though I'll find some time for it, some productive gardening is perfect for cheering me up.
My stuff is not though. Mostly smoke and heat damage; but my sofa, speakers, armchair and other things have enough fire damage to make them skip material. Haven't assessed all the damage, but it's likely to be well over £1000, plus items of sentimental value which no insurance company can replace. Needless to say the sweetcorn that was enjoying the extra light is no longer with us. With this and moving house at the same time it's going to be quite a trying period.
On a more positive note, I went to the plot just before I left Birmingham and planted out half the sweetcorn, so hopefully they'll grow happily and show that life goes on.
No photos of them I'm afraid, I'll take some the next time I head to the plot.
This does mean my room is uninhabitable, and so I'm going to be all over the place until we move in to our new house, and so the plot and this blog might be neglected for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully though I'll find some time for it, some productive gardening is perfect for cheering me up.
4 Comments:
Sorry to hear about your fire - turns out vegetable gardening is more dangerous than I thought! I hope things settle down for you soon.
By Pumpkinsouper, At 04 June 2007 16:40
It probably doesn't feel like it at the moment but you are very lucky it could have been much more serious, I hope you can get things sorted quickly - chin up !!
By welsh girls allotment, At 04 June 2007 19:24
That's too bad about the fire. John at Spade Work (http://www.spadework.typepad.com/spade_work) had a similar thing happen a few weeks ago. Someone burned down his garden shed where he kept among other things some tools he inherited from his father.
After all that, I hope the corn does well!
By Patrick, At 06 June 2007 20:38
Popcorn.
By james, At 03 July 2007 16:40
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