I can imagine that now your thoughts are turned to Christmas. That you are enveloped in the pre-Christmas panic of planning, buying and organising.

Here at Beauregard, our thoughts and conversations have turned to heating, in all its forms and manifestations.

Heating takes on a life of its own here, it is a tangible, raw element of life. No longer do we arrive home to a thermastatically heated house, a warm bathroom and a cosy bedroom.Heating here is done on a room by room, as needed basis. It is hard work.

We have a woodburning stove and various moveable heaters, such as gas bottle fires or electric heaters. Either way, the days of a constant, low-key, low maintanance heat are gone. We have got used to walking to the bathroom through a cold room, to waking up in a cold bedroom and waiting for the heat to start working in the morning. It’s all very old fashioned!

And how it dominates our conversations! It seems quite normal now to spend all night discussing what form of heating you have….’Oh, you have oil-fired/a Villager stove…how does that  do?’ ‘Do you find it uses a lot of wood? We seem to be burning tons’, ‘How much did you spend on your wood?, ‘How do I deal with the draughts, there seem to be so many’, ‘Will we ever be really warm?’…..and on and on. Suddenly heating is no longer the invisible, taken for granted friend but a life-force of its own!

So, enjoy your Festive soaked December and spare a thought for us, with our sooty faces and blue noses!

Off to put another log on the fire……

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