A taste of what's to come

This picture is taken from pretty much the same spot as the 7th picture in The story so far / Spring 2006
It shows 'the big room' as set up for Christmas 2006, (with Mum just arrived from Ridgeway). Obviously, we're still a long way from the finished article, and there are some very contingent temporary arrangements on view, but it's really our first sight of what might be to come!
(The floor's got to come up next!)

Compliments of the season..........

Whatever you call it!

Welcome especially to new readers who may be browsing for the first time .

Please keep coming back - there will be more new stuff in the course of the holiday - no, not photos of people in paper hats, just stuff I hope to catch up on from recent weeks and days.

Those are Tots' lights - for those to whom that means anything!

Heat Machines

At 9.45 this morning, we lit the Broseley for the first time.

It will need two or three more 'running-in' lightings before we can really let it rip, but now we have wood-burners at each end of the house, each feeding some radiators and a hot cylinder.

First, an outside view, with the run of the house marked by the two stainless steel flues.


Then, the Charnwood - our old friend from Nash View - burning bright in the sitting room.




Next, more welcome to us than the election of a pope, the first smoke from the Broseley.




And finally, a view of the Broseley itself.


"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow........."

Good morning, hello and welcome

Which dates us pretty much from the outset.

We are belated converts to full-blown bloggery, but having failed to live up to our own expectations of maintaining a blog-like website (link, top right)
and pondering the practicalities of the annual Xmas-mailathon,
it suddenly struck the webmaster as a coup de foudre that the sensible thing was to follow Leo into bloggery.

There is nothing else to see or read here at the moment - though you can visit the old site for the story so far - but we will progressively get this post facto up to date and then maintain it. 'The story so far' link will take you to an archive of material from the last twelve months.

Coming shortly: pix of the two new heat machines at 4 Clees Lane