Cooking up a storm

Finally, hubby managed to get all the bits n bobs required to fit the new wood-burning, multifuel stove.  It’s great! Got the window air slots open and the room temperature has still managed to reach a sweltering 25c!  It’s a different kind of heat than that from a leccy guzzling storage heater or other electric fire.  This stove has a kind of surround-a-heat throughout the house. No more huddling up trying to catch some warmth from other forms of heating.  We’re burning straw logs, which fling out a tremendous amount of heat and a sweet scent of cattle feed.  It’s really nice.  We’ve learned that they break (if you want) fairly easily by hand ... extremely useful as they swell up once in the stove itself.  We still have a lot of cosmetic tidying up to do – like the remnants of special cement (the black bits on the marble fire place) and finishing off round the hole the stove nestles near.  There’s less dust with this stove than a storage heater.  Wish we’d got one of them years ago.

No ... we don’t cook on top of the stove – it’s tiny, but could probably boil a good pot of coffee if I can ever lay my hands on a stove top percolator.  We are, however, getting a storm. Yeah ... another one or three.  I just checked the shipping forecast again and notice the Sea State is going to reach Phenomenal!!! Wild as our weather is at times, ‘phenomenal’ sea states are not seen too often from the Met Office.  It means the waves will be anything over 50 feet!  Goodness knows what they’ll be over at St Kilda, or what will end up landing on our shores.  It’s mind-boggling, frightening and exciting all at the same time.  I never cease to tire of our crazy weather.  I will not be going out the door tomorrow and am pretty sure the ash from the stove won’t make it to the bucket, but rather whoosh up the chimney when the Violent Storm 11 hits.  It’s good for the ground anyway, so am not worried.

 

 

 

Am off to spend the rest of the day feeding the stove when it’s hungry and enjoying being roasty toasty :) Have a good day everyone, Susan ...

P.S. Caught Ms Aurora snoozing as usual on hubby's chair, with one paw in the air hahaha I could just hear her saying 'Hey, it's like an oven in 'ere, and while you can kick off your slippers n pad about in yer bare feet, I gotta keep these fluffy paws on'. She has since leapt over to the window, which I had to open as it is rather warm in the sitting room, and is enjoying the gentle (at the moment) breeze filtering in. This pic makes me laugh lol