Yesterday there was huge noise in the forest behind our house ; a lot of land was tidied & the small cork forest was pruned & the ground underneath cleared . Then they decided to burn the huge pile of dead branches & leaves .
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As the fire started to crackle ; ash spewed into the air and started to fall into our back garden , our pool , all over the cars , coating everything in black flakes I hosed everything down & my hubby ran to tell the burners that there was an issue .
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They ignored us as more & more ash fell ; the wind had changed direction and literally our entire garden was filled with smoke & ash . Now , normally I’m a very restrained person , thinking before I talk & generally try to be considered .
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Looking round my black back garden ; I lost it ... like a scene from the exorcist ; my inner demon broke out her faerie shell. I climbed up onto the wall & the fury that spilled forth was truly Incredible .
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I screamed at him , a whirlwind of gutteral anger spewed & gathered momentum into a final lifting of the fire extinguisher to show I meant business . At this stage , my hubby was standing next to burner guy - trying to be civil -
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They looked at each other & both started laughing at me . Apparently a fuming faerie with brandishing an extinguisher above her head and screaming at the top of her voice is quite amusing .
Burner guy was now using a tractor to bury fire .
I stormed off ....
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Burner guy was now using a tractor to bury fire .
I stormed off ....
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As I got to the back door . I saw my reflection in the window . My hair , which is long and light - was now black , my face was black . I was covered in soot - no wonder I wasn’t taken seriously ,I was a mad woman who looked like she’d dipped her head in the coal bucket .
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Anyway , the whole village heard my rant ... so much for the cool , calm , collected faerie image I was nurturing . Burn guy sent someone to hose off our garden ... apologising profusely about the wind changing direction . Hubby in hysterics when he came back .
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“ blimey love , what was that ?” Where his first words to me whilst I was furiously washing my now red face in the sink . I tell you what though ; it felt amazing , years of suppressed rage bubbled out of me ( I didn’t even know it was there !)
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I can highly recommend having a good scream ; honestly - I feel like I’ve had a therapy session ... the rage that was bubbling underneath has gone & something shifted .... now I’m dealing with embarrassment instead - oh , we are we’re such complicated creatures .
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Excuse all the typos ... I’m generally literate .... but sometimes not ;)
This is the day after .... Hubby just walked in and said “Morning Cinders “ ..... sigh , I’m never going to live this down
