Asking for trouble. Spotted by Vivienne while walking along Ridge Rd in Coatesville.
Happy Mother's Day
A nice relaxing Mother's Day for this reader. "The out-laws were coming over for lunch so we had planned a big roast. I put a cake in the oven with the leg of lamb
to get started before the rest of it. Half an hour later - power cut. Neighbours' power is fine, it's just us! Two hours before the guy from the power company can come out. I decide to use the barbecue to cook the roast. I put it in a camp oven and bang it on the hot plate. The cake is going to be ruined anyway so I put that in a water bath and cover it with tinfoil and hope for the best. I leave it on the barbecue but 15 minutes later I glance outside and notice it is billowing smoke ... Hubby takes one look and grabs the fire extinguisher before flames ignite and spread to our wooden deck. The food is ruined. I go and have a little cry, baby wakes up ... the room starts spinning. Thud. Apparently I have smoke inhalation. Bed rest for the day."
Garage sale on the move
Tony recently moved house and says it was the usual 4pm rush on a Friday, waiting for mortgage and money transfers. "We decided to just put up the bed, watch TV and leave all the boxes in the garage. Saturday we unpack a lot but left quite a pile of the house items in the garage. On Sunday the garage door was left open as I moved various items into different rooms. I walked back into the garage for the hundredth time and found two little old dears looking in my boxes asking how much for the glass vase? They thought it was a garage sale."
