Today I finally got the open fire going. The house already had it when we bought the place. We had it checked and cleaned while the builders were in fixing up the place.
But it has taken us almost a year to get it up and running. We had a buy a few things first - fire guard, a fire side set with poker and finally a CO2 monitor which is very very important.
But after today I just wanted to put it on. We have snow and my daughter got sent home from school as they had a power cut and the heating went off. When I got the text message I was waiting to see the doctor for my son who has a lump in his neck. It is fine, it is just a lymph node that has come up because he is fighting a virus.
Back to the fire, it did take a little while to get going as I couldn't get the wood to catch fire! But after a whole news paper it is now roaring away and heating us up quite nicely.
The only thing is I have found that I'm not so good at making fire. I now smell of burning and the fire keeps going out! Think I'm going to need more matches. By the time I get better at this fire making we will be in late spring and I won't need the open fire.
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