We had been building this bonfire heap for about 5.5 years and we decided that the weekend of Eurovision was to be when we lit it. Here's Steve looking happy with himself after getting it into a good bonfire shape.
Steve then Rogered around it to clear a nice buffer between it and the surrounding pasture. Memo to self: it is always preferable not to form a bonfire under a large eucalypt.
We gave the honour of lighting the bonfire to Malte who had proven his incendiary abilities by lighting our wood fire in the lounge room most nights of the previous week. He refused to use newspaper to get the thing going.
Liam was very keen to get some marshmallows toasted so began the process of confectionary melting quite early in the piece. Some might say a tad too early.
Because the fire soon erupted into a rather impressive inferno,
the flames of which exceeded Steve and my reckoning, but not Liam's who correctly predicted that they would burn some of the leaves of the flooded gum standing above it. Indeed, we were quite concerned for a few minutes that we were going to set the tree on fire. Memo to self: Do not ever build a bonfire under a tree. Lucky for us, however, and for the tree, no more damage than some burnt branches and leaves occurred.
The fire's heat was too intense for us to get near the fire, but I managed to grab a few pics like this before retreating.
And this is what the great big pile of stuff looked like in the morning. Note the flooded gum still standing.
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