It must have been two or three months since I last got hatchet, axe and saw out in the back garden (Rush fans – name that tune!). However, the warmth of summer is a good time to press on with getting logs and branches chopped down to firewood for our woodburner, speeding the final drying beyond the rate when they are left whole so this morning I went out and got to work.

There’s still a fair amount more to go but, by the autumn, I’d like to have the oldest stuff ready to burn, the newer stuff at least partway through the process and plenty of room to put new wood ready to begin seasoning for winters hence.