fires
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Logs to burn
Another poem about logs burning!! I am rather liking these poems about firewood, there is something so evocative about fire too.
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The Firewood poem
I thought I would share a poem I found about firewood today! Given that we like lighting fires for cooking, sharing, making drinks etc in our forest school sessions! We are also completely wood fired at the smallholding here, a log fuelled Esse for cooking, heating and hot water when the solar thermal panels are…
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Burning the Brash piles and mowing the steep steep orchard and fields!!
The first weekend of half term was spent starting to mow the fields and finally getting rid of brash piles that have been the bane of our fire lighting lives all winter!!! We seem to have cracked the fire lighting now though thanks to a lot of newspaper, breaking the piles down a bit and…
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The beacons are lit!!!
We piled up the excess bits from the tree tidying we did behind the bank….. Well we have been piling for weeks…. Finally this weekend the weather was right…. A couple of hours dry in the morning and rain moving in to out the fires when needed… So a couple of hours before the rain…