bigglesworth

Loy loy, If I remember, I will post at the end of the winter if my usage has gone down as much as I hope it will. But I do have two large woodburners in the lounge and in the salon, and another in the diningroom.
I was going to pipe the heating through, but got caught out by the archetypal crooked British builder. So I am not sure it could be done now. (The house was small farmhouse, then extended, then rebuilt, then partially reskinned! Some walls are two metres thick. and two of the chimneys run through the middle of that.
Oh why did I not pay attention during woodwork classes etc?

loy loy

Super thanks.

We had some one round to quote us for a burner in our front room. But the quote never arrived. He wanted to go down the pellet burner route but we don't have the space for the hopper.

Funnily enough, the quote for our bedroom windows hasn't arrived some 4 weeks later either :-D

MillieF

Oh please don't! I detest Jean de la Fontaine....as does every parent of a school aged child in France no doubt? As the patents get older they all nod in a sage "I hate this bugger, but know that I shouldn't" fashion....but believe me they ALL hate him!

Novocastrian

Just for you Millie...

http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandscla...le_renard.html

dmu

This is a bit of a sweeping statement!
With all due respect, I've never come across any French person who detests JdlF Most are probably indifferent to his fables. What they might hate is the memory of having been obliged to learn them by heart in Primaire...
But let's get back on-topic! Autumn seems to be back with a vengeance in the Languedoc, with storms and torrential rain and drop in temperature. Nearly time to start thinking about lighting a fire of an evening....

bigglesworth

Those first few fires are a delight.

Almost as much as the January ones are a chore!

cyrian

If she detests him then she detests him
Probably moved to Canada just to get away from him

Tweedpipe

MillieF,
Not only les canards sont gavés, but it sounds like you too were forced fed...... on Les Fables de la Fontaine.
Must disagree with your above sweeping statement. Indeed those fables must be one of the most beloved tales in the classic French literature, by children and now their parents alike. Mme TP just adores them, especially 'La Cigale et la Fourmi', always has done.
Now just forget that school you went to, and the verbal funnels they used to choke you, sit back and enjoy what's it's really all about.
La Cigale et la Fourmie (a la Walt Disney).

And to get back on track to the subject 'Winter', I hope you haven't played and danced too much this summer, and have stored up with adequate quantities of foie gras.......

MillieF

Apologies. I didn't mean to go off topic! A brief Flutter at Fontaine.

There are a few bleak places, no doubts in France, but yes I have always found that it is somehow lighter and brighter than generally in the UK, that all encompassing grey is not quite so dreadful. You get a couple of really chilly weeks and then it's all onwards and upwards towards spring.

I had a couple of friends who had pellet stoves, but I don't think you can beat a 'proper' wood burner. Wood is so cheap and plentiful and brings such a delightful warmth, it's just not the same sort of warmth as central heating.

bigglesworth

Yes indeed - I love the warmth of a woodstove

And you get so much warmer cutting it and carting it too!
Every day for the next six months.

dmu

We're only at the beginning of October, so if winter is the same as last year, then every day for the next seven, nay eight, months!

bigglesworth

I feel warmer already!