General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Going back to coal fire days, when we used firewood, and firewood was made from old railway sleepers which were soaked in oil and other stuff, which trains had dripped on them for years, when the fire was burning the wood and the coal was just starting to burn, the thick acrid smoke which was coming off the fire, I thought at the time, how many poisons were in such smoke, and if the fire blew back and you got a whiff of that smoke, it smelled really awful