Fire

A few nights ago, I set our smoke alarm off again (it's a regular thing in our house - every time I cook chops).

We couldn't get it to stop so we had to take it down & pull the battery out. I forgot all about it & it didn't go back up that night. The next day I saw it sitting on the bench but DH wasn't home & I am not tall enough to put it up without a ladder - DH can just stand on a chair. I thought "I will have to remember to get him to put it back up", but of course forgot about it.

That night after DH had gone to sleep I lay in bed tossing & turning thinking about the fact that our smoke alarm wasn't up & hoping that our house didn't catch fire that night.

The next morning we got up to our street full of fire engines, police cars & ambulances.

Our neighbour's house had been completely burned out.

Needless to say, the smoke alarm was back up that day!

Apparently no-one was hurt in the fire.