Woodburners.

Surely an additional sweater is bad for the environment as it requires more wool to be used in its manufacture, which means more sheep using up more grass and emitting more CO2 at one end and more CH4 at the other!

Send her details to Channel5, they love things like this, devote whole programmes to it. She’s not a true open fire/stove lover. More a miserly old trout that’s never going to change. Commiserations on having her as a neighbour.

Swings and roundabouts, Navigateur My Friend , Swings and roundabouts

Actually its animal preservation --  Just shearing those delightful Herdwicks annually and preserving the Status Quo.  { They bleat better with music  }

I often wonder about a pyrotechnic neighbour who burns huge bonfires at every opportunity (despite pleas from other neighbours and the parish council.) In summer the bonfires are lit at night, presumably because we won't see them even though they smoke us out via the bedroom windows! There's always someone somewhere I suppose who'll go against the grain. We have an open fire, we burn dry wood and have drying piles around the garden but we don't light it every day as we're running on gas....when the govt turns that off it will cause a lot of us problems. Other than that I think the particulates in the air, silent and unseen, probably do need tackling. 

I still come back to the matter of Hypothermia amongst us oldies and suggest that a death could be laid at the door of HMG,  yes that is murder by the state!

Being an awkward old git I shall still burn logs to keep the chills at bay. These logs having been hewn from trees felled in my own back garden.

I am currently looking at a 60 footer, that was a Christmas tree in our lounge some 45 yrs. ago, The chain saw was refuelled and  tested yesterday.  Enough logs to last 5 years or more!