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We had a bonfire today. We had a bit of junk that we would otherwise have taken to the tip, but everyone around us has been burning off their junk over the last month or two, so we figured we’d join in. I had cleaned out the office a month ago and had a bunch of boxes of junk to go to the tip, and we had a couple of trees that died in the drought, so they came down with the chainsaw to join in the fun. Lisa also cleaned out the pantry and we burnt that too (the stuff she cleaned out; not the pantry). I would have to admit that was a slight mistake because there were a few cans of food that exploded with a very definite ‘BOOM’ that had neighbors looking out of their windows. Given the number of loads of Lisa’s washing that they’ve ruined over the past few weeks my guilt factor is pretty close to zero. Seeing tins popping into the air and throwing superheated apricots at the fence was actually pretty funny.