Right, who left the refrigerator door open? It feels more like February than mid-April; it’s freezing cold!
We visited the aged FIL in hospital in the afternoon, and were looking forward to getting back to our aged wood stove in the kitchen in order to warm up.
Unfortunately we were unable to light it successfully. Smoke started billowing out of every orifice (even some we did not know were there) and the only solution was to fling open all the doors and windows so that we could see what we were doing. I grabbed the barbecue tongs and rushed the smouldering bits of wood outside. I suspect the stove itself has passed its’ use-by date but it could just be something as simple as a sooty chimney. Another job for LSS’s list tomorrow: find a chimney sweep.