To say it’s been rather a crazy week is an understatement. My daughter saved our home from being burnt down and I changed the name of my blog for starters. This week’s photo diary is sort of a ‘behind the scenes’ recap of the week while Over there to Here became Wild About Here!
Last Sunday we were rebuilding a bird feeder platform and this site was still called Over there to Here. I’m hoping to post later this week on the reasons for the name change. My favourite image of the cheeky robin dealing with the blue tits is actually in the previous wild birds post where we prep for next weekend’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
Monday’s plan to become Wild About Here had to be delayed due to some hiccups in the redirecting. Meanwhile school runs continued and this was the smiling face of my son when I picked him up.
My wonderful geek hubby stayed up late Monday to sort out the domain change and on Tuesday morning Wild About Here was live.
I love taking photos of the horses and animals at the stables where my daughter Luce is learning to ride. This is a photo of a rescued baby turkey from a couple of months ago. I’m including it in this week’s photo diary because….
This is what the turkey looked like on Wednesday.
Thursday…oh Thursday. We were very, very lucky.
I was going to do Luce’s hair as usual when we arrived for her ballet lesson but at the last moment decided to do it at home instead. Theo was at a playdate so there was no arguing or silliness as normal in the back of the car when we set off down the drive. Luce remarked how much smoke was coming out of our chimney as we were passing our cottage. I decided to stop the car and go back inside to check the fire in the woodburning stove. It was burning fiercely but looked okay so I returned to the car. I glanced up at the chimney as I got back in the driver’s seat and there were huge flames coming out of it. It looked like an enormous burning candle!
I ran back inside the house – ordering Luce to stay outside – and began pouring small glasses of water slowly on the wood inside the stove while I waited for the fire brigade. Unbeknownst to me this meant that it produced steam that helped control the chimney fire. I also kept dashing outside to make sure the roof wasn’t burning! Long story short firemen arrived and carefully extinguished the remaining fire in the chimney with a hose up it.
Luce was the heroine. She observed the unusual amount of smoke and told me. If she hadn’t glanced up. If she hadn’t noticed. If we had left five minutes earlier. If… It was perfect timing in saving the house from burning down.
And today we saw this ten day old baby calf when we went to watch cows being milked at a nearby farm.
So rather a flaming start to Wild About Here – welcome!
chickenruby says
wow a busy and eventful week, thank god for observant children. glad the blog name change went week, even though I’m new to your blog i love both the names
Kriss MacDonald says
Thank you – I definitely prefer the new name 🙂
Clare Nicholas says
Yikes how very scary. Thank goodness your daughter noticed and the damage was avoided.
Loving the new name
Kriss MacDonald says
It was just perfect timing when we caught it!
Kate Davis says
Amazing about your wood burner. We have one as well and I don’t know what I would do in that situation. Was putting water on the correct thing? Do they know what caused the fire?
Kriss MacDonald says
I’m no fire expert (!!!!) but it seems it was the ideal thing to do at that moment as it slowly put steam up the chimney – but i was there just when the chimney fire began and saw it outside.
Erica Price says
Scary stuff! Glad it all worked out in the end. Something for Luce to tell her friends at school about.
Kriss MacDonald says
Luce keeps getting very embarrassed and telling me to stop telling everyone she’s our heroine! Of course I told her teacher who told the school at assembly!
Mary @ Over 40 and a Mum to One says
Not a week you will forget in a hurry. So glad that the fire was caught in time. Love the bird shot and turkey’s really are rather ugly but fascinating to look at all the same #365
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins says
OMG how scary that must have been! That is a huge turkey and quite scary looking. Have a good week x #project365
Jaime Oliver says
oh my goodness that awful! i am so glad you have such an eagle eyed daughter that spotted it! .. I am hoping you have a far less dramatic week this week
Kim Carberry says
Oh gosh! What a dramatic week for you! So glad the fire was put out quickly!
Fab photos x
tanya hindes says
Beautiful photos, love the turkey pics 🙂
We had an grill fire a couple of months ago, I had my finger on 999, but then remembered I had a fire blanket under the sink – phew – it is a very scary experience.
Sarah MumofThree World says
Wow! What a scary thing to happen! Thank goodness Luce spotted the excess smoke.
Lovely photos as ever – the change in the turkey is quite astonishing!
Elaine Livingstone says
ooohhh a blog revamp, lots of hard work bit will have paid off. good grief you were lucky things could have been a lot worse, well observed Luce. Were the firemen hunky?
The turkey now looks table sized, and not be long till that cute wee calf can become beefbugers.
Thanks for linking up to Project 365
Rachel Simons says
Wow well done Luce, great observation. I always worry about chimney fires.
Lovely photos 🙂
Becky Cowley says
What a week! We’ll done Luce on spotting the smokey chimney x