What Is It With...

[gness]

....men and fire.....

For the past hour or so we've had two men sitting on the patio with one of those shallow terracotta dishes with wax and three wicks....you know the sort to keep buzzies away at night....

They've got a box of matches and are making wicks from the matches and pressing them into the melted wax to see how many they can get in the dish.....and set alight.....

There is now close to a bonfire on the patio and they are loving it.....easily amused, eh?.... :-)

[mazie]

Yep. Primitive beings :o) Unlike us females

[Arksided]

Its a Neanderthal thing, is one holding a big stick yet. (Yourself excluded of course) Besides you'd think we invented the stuff ;-)

[sunny-dave]

But are there any mosquitoes? No?

Job done ✅

[mazie]

Dave, you really do deserve a medal. :o) and a good therapist xxx

[gness]

That's it, Mazie!...Of course......x

I'll get the torch and look, Ark.......not sure what they're holding and don't want to get too close.....it's as if some sort of ritual is happening...... ;-)

[gness]

I doubt there's a mosquito in the whole of Portugal.....I hardly dare go to bed for fear the fire service turn....Oooo hang on......Mmmmmmm xxx

[anneasquith]

Maybe an initiation ceremony ?

[gness]

Well...I peeped out the door.....they are sitting either side of a bowl of melted wax with the matches in the middle acting as wicks....

They are taking it in turns to float the flaming matches to each other......????...and smiling happily......oh well......... :-)

[gness]

Well if it is, Anne...I'm not joining.....x

[anneasquith]

Are they burning bra's. ?

[Arksided]

Lol... we are indeed simple creatures, fascinated by fire. I'd like to deny all kind of such simple and primitive enjoyment.. but I can't :-)

[gness]

Not my Peacock's bra, Anne....over my dead body!!!!

The best enjoyment, Ark...we've been chatting about the fascination of fire.......when I was a child we could spend all evening sitting around the turf fire just wondering at the shapes and forms the flames took....we saw faces and animals and by the end of the evening all our grannies and grandads who were long dead.....simple fun.....x

[Arksided]

That's so true... many a time pondering it's wonders and seen things in flames (In a controlled environment Folk younger and elder :-) I do believe in the wild most animals are scared of the stuff... also primitive.

[aelmpvw]

you're just peeved because they won't let you anywhere near any matches

[gness]

Dammit! Ael has guessed.... :-(