It's not all about finding firewood:
Occasionally we find something much more interesting:
A Red-tailed Hawk.
Archive for December 2022
Prevent Calendar
The World's most uninspiring Advent-style Calendar.
With 52+ pages it covers a whole year and so far there's been no chocolate.
Foraging
There's a Hobbit hiding away in this clickable pic. Kudos if you can find her:
Said Hobbit emerged to take this impressive pic:
Clearly her phone's camera is much better than mine!
Gath’ring winter fuel
We're having a wood-burning stove fitted next month, so we've been preparing for the big day.
All of this wood was locally-foraged and free, and no live wood was cut other than the trunks pruned from our hazels and buddleia.
It should help to keep our future heating bills at an affordable level:
We built this during the "big freeze"... two or three more days of foraging, sawing and splitting should see it filled:
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice"
