Blimey I nearly burnt the house down. Got up and pulled the curtains, opened the windows and went and got my morning coffee. Popped back upstairs for my glasses and smelt burning, I thought somebody had a bonfire going, then I noticed that the breeze had swept the curtain over one of the small small halogen spotlights that are used as bedside lamps for reading and the curtain was smoking. Ripped it down and flung it out of the window. The smoke alarm on the stairs did not go off, which was strange as it usually beeps at the hint of a bit of toast doing.
I have now changed all the small spotlight bulbs even the ones on the ceiling with nice cool led bulbs, expensive but safety comes first, and put some more smoke alarms around the house. Only a black scorch mark on the curtain lining so they are back up. But if I had wandered around the garden as I usually do in the morning it could have been a lot worse.
Bit of a wakeup call really but scary when you think how a simple thing like that could even cost a life.
