To think this woman is a patronising arse

[jennakong]

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I don't know if this will copy and paste or not, but it's about a woman from today's Daily Telegraph boasting about her ability to live without central heating.

She's got a massive woodburner in the living room. So she's basically wintering as people did in this country until c. the 1980s. One room warm and the rest like a fridge.

Except most people don't have this relative luxury. All council property where I live has had the fireplace removed, no new builds have one. Open fires and woodburners tend to be reserved for the wealthy.

Please tell me we aren't going to be inundated with this garbage until next spring?

Wood around here is comparatively cheap, especially if done on a self-service basis with a chain saw and fallen trees. Kindling and smaller logs can be collected when walking the dog. If you buy/chop ahead and have space you can season them yourself over a couple of years.
In rural villages, many older folk are asset rich but cash poor and worry about the heating costs. Some retired tenant farm workers still live in tied cottages without heating and it’s essential they can continue to use their stoves or ranges for heating and cooking. It’s not perceived as charity or embarrassing to accept if someone drops around a sack of logs or two from the farm, or from clearing up an orchard - in fact it can be sold to the recipient as doing the village a favour getting rid of all the fallen wood. They’d never in a hundred years accept cash for a gas or electricity bill.

Yes this

Don’t add to the bait

Op a smokeless zone doesn’t mean you can’t have a wood burner good lord. And how I cannot comprehend your hounding comment or that council tenants are forced to use gas or oil, they are not.

The OP soon did a u turn on the ridiculous hounding comment!

Hahahahaha. I see her wood burner and I will raise her…. Scottish blood and highland/island conditioning. Still in my flip flops in October. My nearly 50 year old boilers been n semi retirement for years.

My house is not connected to gas and oil is 3 times the price it used to be. Without our log burner our home would be uninhabitable. We are not wealthy.

If I had been one of those people I wouldn’t have let the stupid council anywhere near my home or my fire. I hope they told them to bugger off.

If I lived in Braemar I would tell them to do one too. Storage heaters?! in the Scottish highland winter? 'Might as well sit round a cigarette.'