We'll burn the house down

I forgot to mention the reason we had the woodsmoke in the house Saturday evening.

Well, after having put wood on the fire for several hours, remember the heating had failed, it was warm and toasty. But I noticed that there was smoke in the living room, and spread through the house.

Jools noticed it, and next morning there was the smell of burnt wood.

I thought it was because I had closed the vent to the chimney.

But no.

When we got the half ton of cut wood, it came in a half wooden pallet, which we put ion its side and covered with a sheet of fibre glass, but where there was a bit of wood sticking out, it created a hole in the fibre glass, so to dry the wood out, we stacked the damp logs in the gap between the fire and chimney breast.

The outside of the woodburner gets warm. Hot even. And it seems that Saturday, so warm that it dried the wood out and then set the logs, or one of them, on fire.

It smoldered.

That's where the smoke came from, and this we discovered as we loaded the fire Sunday afternoon to keep the house warm as the sun set.

The log was cool to the touch, but could have carried on.

We were lucky.

Won't do that again.

Ahem.