Fire!

Let the pyrotechnics begin.  Our log stove is now in place and we’re thrilled with the  fabulous job Crown Stoves have done over the last 3 days.  Our ceremonial lighting went like clockwork  (although we had to have the backdoor and living room window wide open) with a quick burn and some great flame patterns from only a couple of logs hewn from our former fire surround.  I truly love a “real” fire and have really missed not having one in this house.  In a perverse way, I’m actually looking forward to the winter evenings.  Now where’s the toasting fork?

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Such excitement!!  At last, our new log burning stove is going to be fitted on Wednesday.  For  one with pyro-maniacal tendencies, it wasn’t hard  to reach a decision that our living room needed more than background central heating to feel truly cosy.  Mr and Miss Glis were easily persuaded too, as they have a shared, secret love of fire browned toast and marmite. Yes, there’ll be more dust but who cannot fail to be enchanted by dancing, mesmerising flames?  And as the stove is Defra eco-approved, we can also feel very smug as we watch, captivated, during the winter evenings