Witness wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:28 am
Why not a typically British fake fireplace?
The real ones are increasingly popular and it's something I considered, as my brother's still gardening and produces logs by the ton: in fact, he has trouble getting rid of them without paying trade waste charges. Consequently, both he and my mother heat their homes largely with wood burning stoves.
They are, however, a massive pain in the arse.
I'd need to buy one, (they're not cheap), reinstall a fireplace, install a flue, reopen a chimney etc. just to get started. Think £2000 or more. Then, there's the fag of sawing up logs, carting them around, finding enough space to store a Winter's supply, lighting them, waiting for them to get hot, then being so warm that you have to open the windows, cleaning out the ash and disposing of it, finding and paying a chimney sweep...
All to save less than a tenner a week.
Fuck, as we have it in the vernacular, that.

Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.