oldbloke's mutterings

I was dozing on the sofa, having a bit of a cold and not having had too much sleep last night thanks to The Lad, when at about 20:30 L woke me and pointed out the window, at the moor opposite.

It was on fire!!!!

Looked almost like a controlled bracken burn, except they do those during the day with people about to stop it getting out of control, and this is nighttime. 5 or 6 separate areas looking like they started as a line running diagonally down the hill then spread, faerie-ring-like, into big loops.

We rang the cops who said to check with the 999 controllers and they alerady knew about it.

I took some photos but my camera mysteriously refused to lock at 1/15th so god knows what I'm going to get.

It's still going now, though obviously dying down.

"crikey"