Bonfire Of The Vanities

Shades of Savonarola at The Homestead today. My sister and I went to support the electrician and Jamie the trench digger. While they were working we took burnable rubbish from the outbuildings and put it on the tenant's bonfire heap.

The men lit the fire and helped us to take some heavy items of rotten furniture to burn. It looks like the sale of the house is going through and that is making us more decisive about disposing of things. I am afraid to say that, though we have taken a lot of stuff to charity shops, we have been burning books, pictures, clothes, cosmetics and as you can see, a mirror (complete with selfie).

In 1497 Friar Savonarola advocated burning objects that might tempt one to sin, including those that I have listed above. His ideals sound very similar to those of our mother, who was brought up in the Plymouth Brethren. Such a shame that Savonarola took Botticelli in. "He was so ardent a partisan that he was thereby induced to desert his painting, and, having no income to live on, fell into very great distress." :(