Fire in the stove......

Ok so it is October and Ok so it is a mild one.

But we have a warm 7 bed house heated by wood that would cost us about 4 pounds a day to heat if we bought fire wood at the local garage.

Less if we had firewood delivered by the truck load.

But we don't do that, we buy firewood in one ton bundles and cut it ourselves.

You need to factor in a bit for that and petrol etc but I still think you would get change out of a pound a day.

Thats outrageously cheap, I reckon.

And wood is a fairly sustainable fuel with a lowish carbon footprint.

Because of course all those people who rave about wood for heating and pellet stoves etc forget that the wood is usually cut using big machines that run on diesel and loaded onto trucks that run on diesel and go to sawmills that use electricity, only the one we buy from does not, no they run on diesel too.

All that before it suddenly becomes a green fuel.

Maybe if firewood was sold that had been cut by hand using traditional tools.

Moved entirely by horse and cart

I wonder what a fair trade cost for that stuff would be?

How many people would be prepared to pay for that?

Perhaps I am rambling on a bit but anyway, we have a warm house.

We don't - no - it's HOT!!!!!

R