eek!

This afternoon 

quietly engrossed in a FABBO doco
(all about the Hamilton wood type museum and etc.)

on ABC1

'gosh my throat feels all scratchy'

'geez my eyes are stinging'

glance to the ceiling

GEEZ MY HOUSE IS FILLED WITH SMOKE!

smoke was pouring out of the front of our combustion heater

(cough cough cough cough)

EEEEEK!

fiddle door of fire box

(nope - still smoking)

kick flue of heater

(nope - still smoking)

try to find ladder to get on roof to check flue top... and to check ceiling cavity

(none around)

grrrrrr!

try calling my brother - he's Cobargo Rural Fire Service deputy legend....
and like our daddio - AFSM (Australian Fire Service Medal... life-term legend)
he knows what to do about all manner of FIRE!

(no answer)

called farmer phil

EEEEK! phil.... EEEEK!

called 000

'just tell them it's Rhonda Ayliffe's place - A.Y.L.I.F.F. (as in foxtrot) E

sams creek

trust me - they know where to go'

(cough cough cough cough)

a short time later - FP gets home
(cows left hanging in the dairy... kids left in the dairy with the cows!)

then the cobargo BIG truck turns up 

then brother-in-law (also a volunteer in the cobargo crew) turns up

then another small truck from diggies creek with another two volunteers

then the toyota with Roger
(who scrambled all the way from Yowrie - 16kms west of town in the bush... onya Rog!)

our fire heater flue had blocked over and caught on fire.... 

with some natty handiwork
from ron and tony and fiona and alan and chris and roger (and phil)
all was sorted

no damage done

(expect to my life expectancy!!)

(after the fire crews left for home,
FP conjured a homemade chimney sweep ... from a long pipe and a defunct mop

and gave the flue a solid chimney enema!)

major kisses and love to Cobargo Rural Fire Service
and kudos to all fire volunteers 

(these guys don't get paid to answer the call you know.... and today is Sunday!)

Australia's volunteer fire fighters 

all 200 000 of them

are bloody heroes!

xxxxxx