Warmer Future

Boxing day and fortunately the weather has begun to warm up. It has started frosty but, where the sun gets to, it is thawing out. We are even able to reduce the amount of heaters in the house! We all went off looking for some of our bits of land that we own around the area. We now know roughly where our nearest 'parcelle' is but it is difficult when you don't have an exact starting point from which to take bearings. But, as the weather was good, we enjoyed getting out into the fresh air.

We have been using Guy to help us, and it is surprising what a difference an extra pair of hands can make. We seem to have been burning wood on the fire at an alarming rate in an effort to keep warm. So, Guy demolished a wooden wall in our barn and then chopped/sawed up the wood ready for the fire.

I was beginning to panic that we would be running out of wood to burn, and I had been making enquiries as to where the nearest wood for heating could be bought. But now, with the weather warming, the stock of wood out of the barn, and the reserve of the wood from the flooring of the first level in the barn, I feel a little less concerned. We'll have to see if it will last until the Spring!