Rollingthunder

In a fireplace of course. Gas fires just don't do it although getting wood can be a problem in our high society. Cosy evenings, roaring fire.

The Invisible Man

Agree RollingThunder

I have one of these in my boat, it can be well below freezing outside but tropical inside......love it......so cosy it makes ya wanna drink !!!! ( works every time )

Have Central heating at home, plus gas fire in living room and they just dont do a thing for me.

http://www.millfieldstoves.com/stovax-brunel.html

So hot !!!

Anthony Carn

Nope.....never had that problem.

G-ALAN

Yes I like lighting fires

Jerricho

I'm not allowed to be within 50 feet of a fire. Damn judge doesn't know what he was talking about.

tony draper

I used to love me open coal fire, they were a pain in the arse first thing in the morning to clean out and light though,was in a house out in the sticks a couple of weeks ago, it had a lovely roaring coal fire.
The demise of the coal fire is to blame for all the rubbish and shite blowing about our streets now folks just used to chuck their rubbish on the back of the fire at one time.

I wouldn't have thunk a log fire was the safest thing to have on a boat Mr Invisible one assumes by boat you mean something made of wood, nothing worse than yer log stove burning its way through yer keel and giving you a china syndrome when yer rounding the Horn in a force 12.

The Invisible Man

No Mr D,

Its a 40ft steel thing......the heat given off by said stove certainly makes the thing expand and creak !!! ( and me creak to !!!)

whiz

I put it you you Mr Draper Sir, that the 'horn' can only be rounded if you don't have enough 'wood'

tony draper

One was going to say "Beating ones way around the Horn" but thunk better of it,knowing some prooner would pounce on such a statement,incidently the Cape of ill repute is named after a Dutchman,"Van Hoon", not after some anatomical phenomenon.

The Invisible Man

Was of "ill repute"


Cape Horn fever is the name given to the sickness suffered by a member of the crew who is pretending to be unwell in rough and heavy weather and trying to get out of his duties on the upper deck.

takenthe5thamendment

I'm fortunate enough to have gas central heating and a coal fire - no damned good when the cat decides to peer up the chimney!

What is it with cats and their fascination for soot?

Ozzy

Never, never, ever put wood on a gas fire

Ozzy

Lear_doctor

So this is not a Welsh holiday home thread then?

Fair enough I'm off


takes cover from inevitable inbound flak

pigboat

..and you really shouldn't throw gas on a wood fire either.