3 Steps To Winter Warmth

 

 

STEP ONE...

 

Meet lovely people with a very big garden full of tree prunings and timber left over from large scale house renovation...

 

STEP TWO...

Don special trousers and learn to use a chain saw (trickier than it seems - the chain saw bit, not the trousers), and spend a day cutting up large pieces of wood...

 

 



 

STEP THREE...

 

Take the wood home and make it into a fire.  Voilà!  It sounds quite easy, but is actually good old hard labour and enjoying the fruits of it is very rewarding.  Having said that, it is still glorious weather here, sunny and 23ºc – shorts weather for some, meaning log fires are hardly necessary, but we couldn’t wait.  It’s our first house with fireplaces and every time we light a fire feels like a special occasion. I’m sure the novelty will wear off when it is cold enough to necessitate the fire, but meantime it’s still my favourite decorative accessory!