Earlier this evening whilst out walking I smelt wood burning, the smell of musty dead leaves crunching under my feet like crispy cornflakes and a whiff of blackberries. Now that is a smell I would like to bottle as Autumn has definitely arrived. Judith, you can now officially get out your woollie jumpers as you said you were out of sync when we had the warm weather a couple of weeks ago.
It reminded me of a time when I used to live in a property which was heated by a traditional log burner and in the lounge was a coal fire. Now these are appealing if someone else has to saw the wood, hump the coal, empty and clean the grate then kick start the fires, but when you are solely responsible for these chores I can assure you that it was sheer hell. Can you imagine me sawing wood? Well I did, but at least it was on an electric saw, but I hated it. After working all day having to come back home and start lighting a wood burner and a coal fire in the depth of winter was no joy. Also I would often forget to keep reloading the wood into the log burner.
Tell you what, when people have romantic ideas of sitting in front of a real fire with a glass of wine I have to laugh, now I just love to turn a switch on the wall and the central heating comes on - BLISS
Anyone else have a Log Burner/Coal Fire?
Ruby
It reminded me of a time when I used to live in a property which was heated by a traditional log burner and in the lounge was a coal fire. Now these are appealing if someone else has to saw the wood, hump the coal, empty and clean the grate then kick start the fires, but when you are solely responsible for these chores I can assure you that it was sheer hell. Can you imagine me sawing wood? Well I did, but at least it was on an electric saw, but I hated it. After working all day having to come back home and start lighting a wood burner and a coal fire in the depth of winter was no joy. Also I would often forget to keep reloading the wood into the log burner.
Tell you what, when people have romantic ideas of sitting in front of a real fire with a glass of wine I have to laugh, now I just love to turn a switch on the wall and the central heating comes on - BLISS
Anyone else have a Log Burner/Coal Fire?
Ruby