Let's talk about the weather then ...

Just like to point out I am not anti-woodburners (I have one myself). It just seems that no matter what we do or what we use - we are wrong.

I haven't used my woodburner yet this year - my only other heating is an oil fired Rayburn - so I am definitely not on Greta Thunberg's Christmas card list!

Well we live out in the sticks, and use local ash- so I'm afraid it is how it is...never coal. We have solar panels for hot water- and too rural to be on gas- so better than using more oil.

I know it is I can't be a*sed - my students told me years and years ago- I was quite taken aback- but I kept to my version. They also taught me the difference between a twit and the one with the other vowel... being a furiner has its excitement

Still snowing.

Awww.

Well, it has just peed down here and I am cuddled up with 11 year old dgd and 2 year old granddog so I'm as snug as a bug in a rug.

I’m happy to light it, it’s the cleaning out of it tomorrow.?

I will be switching my leccie heater on Lemon. Lazy bugger me.

How much a woodburner pollutes depends on how you use it, what you burn in it and whether harmful particles are filtered out.

Heating is very necessary; cars less so, unless you live at the back of beyond.

Improving public transport, so fewer people feel the need for a car, making it possible to run an electric car economically etc. will do a lot more good for the environment than discouraging wood burners.

Nothing like a log fire on a cold day, we will be lighting one this evening.?

If you have a Cleanburn Defra approved stove and only burn dry wood, they shouldn't pollute too much. Don't often light mine though. Cba.

New even more stringent rules coming in soon.

Woodburners obviously pollute, but some of us have to have heating that doesn't rely on electricity (and not all of that comes from renewables) because the power goes off all too frequently with strong winds or heavy snow.

Sunseeker that old saw (pun intended) has been doing the rounds for ages. Although I think it used to be just 2 cars. There's something about the glow of a log fire during a cold wet winter......

A researcher has said on local radio today that a woodburner is more polluting than 6 diesel cars (sorry ).

How nice and cosy? ( jura, it’s ‘can’t be arsed’)
❄️No snow here ( yet!)

and snowing some more. Woodburner on, very cosy ...