Dom Davis (The Blog)

It’s occurred to me that perhaps it might be cheaper, less hassle and slightly less dangerous if I were to spend 99p on a bag of Morrisons finest kindling. The thought occurred to me as I was trying to get a fire load of hand sawn [my step-father doesn't trust me with the table saw] green wood to light with the use of two fire lighters, a paper starter log and half a can of lighter fluid. The current crop of wood is so wet you can actually hear it hissing as it burns. It’s fine once the fire is actually going as the heat soon gets rid of the moisture, but that initial bit of getting it going could do with some nice, dry, easy to burn wood. Don’t get me wrong, it’s huge fun sat there spraying lighter fluid onto an already lit fire and watching the flames leap about [for as long as the lighter fluid is applied, all too soon it's burned off and the flames die out] it’s just I don’t want to get it wrong and be sat there two hours later going “So I was trying to light the fire with some fire lighter…” to the local fire brigade