Perhaps my problem is that I live alone, and wood-burners are a two-person job one to make the tea and rabbit stew, while the other goes out to get the wood every few hours. They seem primordially fascinated by pyrotechnics and see controlling fire as a real skill.
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They enjoy discussing how to manage them, keep the fire going by using petrol-laced fire-lighters, pushing a lever to the right and releasing a valve at a particular moment. The friends who say they really love a good wood-burner are usually men. I may have stumbled, thanks to the wood-burner, upon a major difference between the sexes: men are happy to forage for their fuel but most women are not. She is wise enough to stay in the bedroom submerged in the winter duvet. My cat does not sit happily in front of it, yellow eyes gleaming, as she might before a real open fire. It bothers me that since I moved in with this stove I am often cold, sometimes wet, tired and frequently covered in ash. People are obviously desperate to go back in time. New they cost £2,000 or more, and 180,000 UK homes had a stove installed last year sales were five times higher than in 2007.
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