Three minute warning

[Fjgrogan]

Neill - your safe is probably fire-proof, so its contents would be secure anyway?

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Yep ! I realise that the contents of the Safe would survive --- what got me, was the negative priority given to Family Heirlooms !!
TBA, having lived for 5 years, on such things as Fish and Rice, in a Teak house, on stilts (The house -- not TBA !) and looking after Lepers and Karen Tribes Refugees --- has a somewhat different outlook on the neccessities of Life.
This is admirable, but even after 34 years, I still find difficulty adapting to it !!!!

[sejintenej]

The wife, who would have to be saved first, as she would be rushing around, filling my arms with everything in no particular order, the blue box with all my documents in, the car keys and spectacles, although I have a spare pair in the car, (its the law around here).

AFAIR the law is that you have to have a second pair in the car with you; if your "first" pair has been incinerated then you only have one pair in the car so you would be breaking the law. Why do you think the Guardia Civil would be waiting 20 metres down the road? They aren't stupid.

[Angela Woodford]

I have never heard of this legislation before - interesting!

What about us contact lens wearers? We'd have to have a car lens maintenance kit! We'd need to stash away not only a completely new pair, but a lens case and cleanse-and-sterilise solution because we'd have wept our mascara into our eyes and be suffering from the stinging blurry effect of the smoke, so whilst the fabulous firemen are dealing with the blazing shell of our home, we are rushing to change our contact lenses, struggling with the car door and realising that the thing we should have saved - the car keys - is there in the inferno.

Maybe banning candlelit supper on safety issues.

[gma]

You see what comes of marrying a Missionary --- they don't get their priorities right !!!!!

Sadly, this thread marks me out as completely non-Mish as I'd grab my drressing gown first then HWMBI's wallet as it's where all the credit cards are and I could go straight to a hotel and order room service!! HWMBI would be apoplectic as he would not have time to rescue all his toys so he would have to choose one which would probably be an antique gun that he has - it would be a 50/50 as to which of us collected on the insurance as the gun and the wallet are at oposite ends of the house!!

[cstegerlewis]

Sorry, come to this thread late, and I can't think what I would save apart from the family at the moment, however I noticed in Jude's very detailed description of her house

Guest bedroom next to it (door open) at the end of the corridor is the general bathroom, window opens over the porch, where the front door is - and has 3 roof tiles of 3 fleur-de-lys - which I jest not are sharp and very expensive). Opposite guest bedroom is airing cupboard

.......and laughed out loud in the office......JUDE YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE, WHO CARES THAT THE FdL's ARE EXPENSIVE