snap, crackle and pop

Oh that looks lovely !

Wonderful! I love this. Is it situated in a kitchen as well?

Thank you bothg. Yes Greenthumb - that's my kitchen and the door leads out onto the street with all my potted plants and litte garden - of which you will find a zillion images in some of my older photos ..

Clever! Useful as well.

this is the country which invented central heating...no surprise at all! love your kitchen... not a chrome appliance in sight! fabulous.

Great idea.

that looks fab

Thank you everybody - I really am quite proud of hubby's handiwork (but don't tel him that !)

Very interesting..Do you have another source of heat as well?

Happy New year !!

No Newfienurse - I don't need another source as the water in the pipes is heated by the fire and is then pumped in the radiators throughout the house .. an ingenious system, as otherwise the fire would only heat up the kitchen and upstairs would be freezing !!

so you always have a fire going?

Yes when I'm there !! That's the only problem Newfienurse - if the fire goes out then of course the water cools down and like you said, the house would consequently need another source of heat.

What I'm thinking of doing for when I retire and would thus be spending more winter time there, is to have the system linked to natural methane gas with a switch and timer. So if I go out, I switch the pumping system to gas and back again to the fire when I get home …

That's interesting...using Methane, I mean. When you see the huge landfill sights and smell the other odours coming off of the garbage it makes you think about conservation and alternate fuels... I once lived in a city which had constructed a park over an old landfill... there were stacks around the periphery for off gassing! a tennis court constructed on the site became a warped (the blacktop) slough... and strange gelatinous creatures lived in the puddles!! It was really scarey... we moved shortly after that discovery. I wouldn't let my son play in the park, either. but it did make me wonder why those gases weren't collected...