Day: February 4, 2015

But although we’ve got a series of cold nights lined up from now going into at least the middle of next week, it doesn’t look as though we’re going to get any snow just yet. However, the cold draughts don’t make it any easier to keep the temperature up in my house.

Most of my last wood delivery is still outside under plastic covers and although we had a bit of rain shortly after it was delivered, it didn’t get very wet and it doesn’t now look as though it’ll come to any harm until I can get round to cutting and splitting all of it and getting it into my wood store. I came to the end of my old stocks a day or so ago and have already started on the new wood and I’m glad to say that M. Dumas has come up trumps yet again. It’s good seasoned dry oak, ready for burning just like my other deliveries from him were, so he’s a good find I think.

Just to be on the safe side, as I knew that I was coming to the end of my ready-to-burn stocks, I cut and split some of the new so it could stand for a few days in my wood store to make sure that it was totally dry. And I also moved several uncut lengths in as well, just in case the weather decided not to play ball and caught me out. But it didn’t, and today I was not only able to cut and split that wood but also quite a lot more from outside, and I now have enough ready-to-burn wood to keep me going for a couple of weeks at least. Over the next day or so, I’ll do the rest of the delivery too, and then I won’t be a hostage to anything that the weather might decide to throw at me.

The new wood store is proving itself to be a boon and it was definitely worth the several weeks of effort that it took constructing it. I’m also pleased to say that there’s now no sign of any leakage through the roof, and I’m just hoping that it stays that way 😉