19 January 2024
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This week the ‘middle of Lidl’ aisle has included a double woodstove fan among its wares. I’ve been interested in one of these devices for a while and picked one up earlier today. This type of fan uses a Peltier … Continue reading
18 February 2023
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I got a nice load of free firewood today… if you count several hours labour as free. That’s not a problem but just an observation. Today Jane and I joined a group working in Donington le Heath doing some hazel … Continue reading
3 February 2023
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As of today, I am now the proud owner of a chainsaw. As a bonus, I still have all my limbs attached! Jane and I were talking about getting a chainsaw earlier this week. We’ve got quite a backlog of … Continue reading
4 January 2023
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When Jane was out and about this morning, she spotted some workers taking down a tree on a nearby housing estate. It turned out they were very happy for us to go back and pick up some of the resulting … Continue reading
5 January 2021
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Jane and I got our first wood burning stove in the spring of 2014. We were fortunate to find some free sources of wood quite early on, like a big old conifer that had fallen at the back of a … Continue reading
23 October 2020
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When we got a delivery of firewood recently, most of it was well seasoned and we stacked it neatly in the space I’d set aside as a log store. However, we also got a few unseasoned, unsplit logs as a … Continue reading
10 October 2020
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Yesterday’s work on the log store has now been put to use. The size was about right – as full as can be with more logs inside and some bonus fresh ones that will need sawing and splitting in an … Continue reading
30 September 2017
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I’ve had a busy old day. The morning was taken up with playing with the various stashes of firewood in the back garden – making room for the bits I picked up yesterday by moving older pieces and doing some … Continue reading
29 September 2017
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It’s that time of year when I’m trying to make sure I’ve got as much seasoned wood as possible cut up and ready to bring into burn when we need it and as much of the newer supplies trimmed down … Continue reading
16 October 2015
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This is the bit of the garden I was concentrating on this morning: Quite a few of those are now cut down and, where suitable, split in two or three. Over the next month or two they will carry on … Continue reading