Poor timing

This weekend has started to feel like spring is on its way - a bit of warmth, a bit of blossom and a lot of wind. Winter is my favourite season so I'm not very fond of spring. And it is a very uncertain season - it doesn't know what it wants to do one day to the next. But it's hard to be grumpy when there's that definite change in the air, and it was nice to get dry washing off the line today. Because that it was my life is about, washing. So much washing.

So, what is the best thing to do in spring? Buy a fireplace of course. After twelve years of whining about the heating in our house, and freezing to death each winter, and turning over all sorts of solutions that wouldn't work for various reasons, we have just bitten the bullet and ordered ourselves a big black burning thing.

Actually its a medium console Cleanair freestanding wood burning fireplace, and it's very boring and traditional and practical. We are going to put it at the end of the living room, between the TV and the window. We were going to put it at the other end of the room closer to the rest of the house, but there are overhanging eaves from the garage to get the flue around, and it would have been a bit in the way in the room itself. So we're just going to pop it in the corner and hope for the best - the installers reckon it will heat the room no matter where it is and that is good enough for us.



Of course they can't actually install it for another month, which is probably around when we get our first 30 degree day, but that is OK because we are truly hopeless at getting our act together to get stuff done around the house ... so better to seize the moment than put it off. Yay for burning things.