After a much needed break through the summer and what has been gifted as a very lovely and surprisingly warm early autumn, it's fair to say that we have only just got back into using our Stove now, in October. I can't quite believe it
.....we stopped lighting it. I thought it would be a bigger thing than it was. It just started to happen. One night it was so warm and I just couldn't be bothered and all of a sudden it has happened a few nights in a row.
I have been mulling on this question for ages and wondering what life was like before we had a fire. Seems strange, but if you know me personally you will have heard about how our life has changed since the installation of the fire and
I haven't spoken about Hygge for ages. You know that wonderful Scandinavian way of life which is all focused around warming comfort. The ideal cosy life which stirs up all those lovely feelings deep inside you. Well I think it's because we have passed out
Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear If the logs are kept a year; Store your beech for Christmastide With new-cut holly laid beside; Chestnut's only good, they say, If for years 'tis stored away; Birch and fir-wood burn too fast Blaze too bright and do not last; Flames from larch will shoot up