I think it has finally got to the student. This winter has set new standards for cold.
When you live somewhere lovely, like we do you get all these people being jealous of our life in some sort of rural idyll frame.
Thing is though that in rural idyll some of those things you just take for granted are just not there.
No mains gas, No mains water, There are even some places where electricity does not reach.
We do at least have electric on the mains, but anyway
.
I know other parts of the UK have fared far worse than us but it has been -8 for night after night now, just when spring should be cutting in and we should be easing back on the fires - we are running them harder then we were in December.
Firewood, cut for September October has been coming out of the shed. The stuff we will be cutting soon is the stuff we should be putting out to dry over the summer so it's ready for November December.
Last week has seen off our stock of remaining wood. We are going to be cutting stuff to burn in the next week. This is really bad, you get far less heat and far more ash.
Unless of course you are actually burning ash which can be pretty much burnt the day you cut it.
This burning wood thing is quite scientific which is why I suppose a lot of people went over to gas and oil which requires no more brains than the ability to operate a switch.
The end result for us though has been a house far colder than the student has become used to.
We have gone back to where we were 20 years ago, 2 13.5 tog duvets on the bed.
On the positive, today big D was in work with the national parks clearing some wood and doing some fencing. They were left with a huge pile of waste that they just stacked, what would happen to that asked D, well it's just going to be left he was told. Would it be OK if we went down there later and took it away? That would be great, they told him, thank you very much for taking it away.
Now don't get me wrong, this is not firewood to burn now, but we took a ton out tonight and we are going back in the morning with the 2 ton trailer tomorrow afternoon we will go back again.
So that bit is good - in about 12 months we will have some lovely wood.
Does not help us today though.
But the house is about OK on the warm front.
R
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When you live somewhere lovely, like we do you get all these people being jealous of our life in some sort of rural idyll frame.
Thing is though that in rural idyll some of those things you just take for granted are just not there.
No mains gas, No mains water, There are even some places where electricity does not reach.
We do at least have electric on the mains, but anyway
.
I know other parts of the UK have fared far worse than us but it has been -8 for night after night now, just when spring should be cutting in and we should be easing back on the fires - we are running them harder then we were in December.
Firewood, cut for September October has been coming out of the shed. The stuff we will be cutting soon is the stuff we should be putting out to dry over the summer so it's ready for November December.
Last week has seen off our stock of remaining wood. We are going to be cutting stuff to burn in the next week. This is really bad, you get far less heat and far more ash.
Unless of course you are actually burning ash which can be pretty much burnt the day you cut it.
This burning wood thing is quite scientific which is why I suppose a lot of people went over to gas and oil which requires no more brains than the ability to operate a switch.
The end result for us though has been a house far colder than the student has become used to.
We have gone back to where we were 20 years ago, 2 13.5 tog duvets on the bed.
On the positive, today big D was in work with the national parks clearing some wood and doing some fencing. They were left with a huge pile of waste that they just stacked, what would happen to that asked D, well it's just going to be left he was told. Would it be OK if we went down there later and took it away? That would be great, they told him, thank you very much for taking it away.
Now don't get me wrong, this is not firewood to burn now, but we took a ton out tonight and we are going back in the morning with the 2 ton trailer tomorrow afternoon we will go back again.
So that bit is good - in about 12 months we will have some lovely wood.
Does not help us today though.
But the house is about OK on the warm front.
R
.
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good thinking Big D !!
Scary to think of the heating bills in houses less well built than yours
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