Cat-astrophes

The beach is the perfect place for fire twirling. There is nothing like waves and flames side by side...unless there is rain...

Obviously fire and water aren't the best of friends, but with a constant mist as it was last night, they go together gloriously! Especially when you're with a newbie...

I often joke that a friend of mine is my 'apprentice' because I've been teaching the basics to twirling. I have to admit he is a natural - one of the fastest learners I have seen. So I thought last night was the perfect time to put his new skills to practice.

It's great watching someone go from 'oh yeah, I can do this...' to potential-pyro.


He's on the left (with a spectacular trail), I'm on the right (looking like I've tangled myself up in flames...)

Being a night of firsts, I decided to light my new double staves and see if I could burn some hair...

I didn't burn anything, but when Mr Apprentice picked up one of the smaller, skinnier staves he did some weird crazy spinny drummer-thing with it and I suddenly realised that I now had competition.


xxx