Blow The Flame

A while ago I tried to start a fire from scratch.

I bought a fire-stick which, with a bit of technique, creates sparks. And then if you’ve got the right sort of dry tinder, you’ve got the beginning of flames.

Like a lot of things that look easy on a youtube video, it’s harder to achieve than it looks. After a lot trial and error I was managing to get good sparks happening. But those sparks were not lighting those carefully shaved bits of dry driftwood that I was attempting to ignite.

I tried for a long time. And in the end I used a small cheat. I put a small bit of cotton wool soaked in vaseline. The cotton wool lights fairly easily, and the vaseline causes it to stay alight for a good while.

So, in the end Man Make Fire.

I’d like to be able to do all of that properly. But getting a little bit of success, even with help, is what keeps us trying. We need to know that thing we’re trying to do is possible.

Impossible doesn’t have a big following, unless your name’s Tom Cruise.


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