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I’ve been sat out the back for hours after work in front of the chiminea feeding logs on, mesmerised by the flames. It’s better than anything on the telly.
Trick is boys, dry timber. Get it this year ready for next and sling it in the garage to dry properly - no smoke, no choking smell.
Fire - whiskey - country music. A lottery win without the bother and expense of having to buy a ticket...
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Fire - it’s a man thing... on 23:43 - Apr 22 with 2540 views
Definitely a man thing. Not sure about the drink and country music though, unless the music drives you to it. Cherish the silence while you can, you've only got a few months of it left.
Fire - it’s a man thing... on 23:43 - Apr 22 by longlostjack
Agree with everything there but you’re choice of music. Sibelius mun.
I had Billie Holiday on out there earlier. Just me, the cracking logs and the hounds sleeping around my feet. Bliss.
I hadn’t really ‘listened’ to her in years. We’ve had her on in the house, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just been background; you don’t tend to take it in. In the right setting and in the right mood she’s spellbinding.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Fire - it’s a man thing... on 23:57 - Apr 22 with 2495 views
Fire - it’s a man thing... on 23:52 - Apr 22 by Lohengrin
I had Billie Holiday on out there earlier. Just me, the cracking logs and the hounds sleeping around my feet. Bliss.
I hadn’t really ‘listened’ to her in years. We’ve had her on in the house, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just been background; you don’t tend to take it in. In the right setting and in the right mood she’s spellbinding.
Flashed up the charcoal Barbie this evening, slung on a few sausages and a couple of rib eye steaks, cracked open a bottle of white for mrs lifelong and a bottle of red for myself.. very enjoyable.
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Fire - it’s a man thing... on 00:05 - Apr 23 with 2474 views
Fire - it’s a man thing... on 00:02 - Apr 23 by lifelong
Flashed up the charcoal Barbie this evening, slung on a few sausages and a couple of rib eye steaks, cracked open a bottle of white for mrs lifelong and a bottle of red for myself.. very enjoyable.
Lovely.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Fire - it’s a man thing... on 00:19 - Apr 23 with 2462 views
Can't beat it Loh, we do the same got a verandah/patio ok a decking area up the back of the garden, a shed thats fully powered, so we have a night out now and again, will do tomorrow, Chimera burning, bbq, drinks and some music
Country/Western and Contemporary RnB. Two musical genres with almost no redeeming features whatsoever.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Fire - it’s a man thing... on 09:26 - Apr 23 with 2232 views
As kids we used to sleep out in bivouacs out of sticks, mud and leaves and build fires where we’d cook freshly caught fish under the stars. Good times. No country and western though.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Good thread. I remember having similar thoughts a couple of nights ago, gazing in to the flames from the homemade fire pit I made from a few loose bricks and an old BBQ grill. The wood had been in the shed for a year because of the mild winter we had, and I only have a small wood burner anyway so there's plenty of it. Sat under the stars until midnight with the flames and a bottle of Malbec.
‘……. like a moth to Itchy’s flame ……’
Fire - it’s a man thing... on 00:36 - Apr 23 by DJack
What about quantum chronodynamics?
They'll string it together, in theory.
The lockdown had me doing gardening and there is a lot of kindling. We have a burner coming and on nice summer evenings there will be me, a fire, a bottle of beer and my kindle out the garden enjoying the peace and quiet....until all the deadwood is gone anyway. We have a hedge running up one side and a lot of it is dead anyway so it's coming down and a proper wall going up, hedges are too much work!
There won't be music though, I can't read properly with it and anyway, peace and quiet is under rated!
I have gone one step further than the drying of logs for chiminea purposes. I get through countless bags of smokeless fuels picked up from the local petrol station, a little bit of kindling gets the fire going but then this fuel is immense at keeping us warm in the garden. Warning - it generates an enormous amount of heat and I wouldn’t risk using it with a clay stove. My cast iron stove copes admirably.
Being an ex steelworker and doing the strike of 1980. I dont use a chimnea, ive opted for a brazier, gives off more heat, and you can also use anthracite smokeless , lasts longer.
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