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A mystery solved?
May. 31st, 2024 04:57 pmOn Wednesday, during the Welsh chat in the cafe, one chap said that he'd seen a report of a serious fire on the road leading to where my elderly friend lives. No one else knew anything about it and it took me a while to find any mention of it online and that was on the Welsh news (in Welsh) on the BBC website. It said that business premises had been destroyed in a fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Several fire engines had been in attendance.
But I couldn't think of any "business premises" on the hill leading to M's house. It's entirely residential properties. There is a farm half way up the hill, so I wondered if one of their barns had caught fire.
As the weather was so lovely today, I nipped into the supermarket on the outskirts of town and after I'd bought a few things, including M's newspaper, I left the car in the car park and walked up the hill.
There was no sign of a fire anywhere. However, after I left M's house, on the way back down I noticed that a garage at the side of one house was boarded up. A van outside had a name and "Home improvements" on the side. So this seems to be the "business premises" referred to in the article. Not quite what I had imagined from the BBC report, but it was no doubt very scary for the home owner when it happened as the garage wasn't detached and the whole house could have caught fire.
But this reminded us of the time many years ago when the BBC seemed to be talking about a major incident as they reported that a train had come off the rails at Fairbourne. However, it soon turned out that it wasn't the mainline train, it was the little miniature railway I posted a photo of a few days ago. The wind had been so strong that a carriage had been blown over. I don't think anyone was hurt and the carriage was soon lifted back onto the tracks. It makes you wonder why you believe anything in the news at all. Every time we've been involved in anything newsworthy, at least a few details have been wrong in the report in the newspaper.
22/52 for the group 2024 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: V is for Variegated
I spotted these variegated leaves on my walk to visit M.
( Eowyn Challenge -- weekly progress report )
But I couldn't think of any "business premises" on the hill leading to M's house. It's entirely residential properties. There is a farm half way up the hill, so I wondered if one of their barns had caught fire.
As the weather was so lovely today, I nipped into the supermarket on the outskirts of town and after I'd bought a few things, including M's newspaper, I left the car in the car park and walked up the hill.
There was no sign of a fire anywhere. However, after I left M's house, on the way back down I noticed that a garage at the side of one house was boarded up. A van outside had a name and "Home improvements" on the side. So this seems to be the "business premises" referred to in the article. Not quite what I had imagined from the BBC report, but it was no doubt very scary for the home owner when it happened as the garage wasn't detached and the whole house could have caught fire.
But this reminded us of the time many years ago when the BBC seemed to be talking about a major incident as they reported that a train had come off the rails at Fairbourne. However, it soon turned out that it wasn't the mainline train, it was the little miniature railway I posted a photo of a few days ago. The wind had been so strong that a carriage had been blown over. I don't think anyone was hurt and the carriage was soon lifted back onto the tracks. It makes you wonder why you believe anything in the news at all. Every time we've been involved in anything newsworthy, at least a few details have been wrong in the report in the newspaper.
22/52 for the group 2024 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: V is for Variegated
I spotted these variegated leaves on my walk to visit M.
( Eowyn Challenge -- weekly progress report )
