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18/11/2015

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I'm quite often fired up with some new enthusiasm, but my love for fire is more to do with the comfort of it. Fires on the beach, wood burning stove, candles - they are alive and elemental in a way that central heating and electric light can never be.

We have a wood-burning stove. It heats the water and four radiators.

It is hard work, stacking wood, drying it, lugging it in in baskets. The stove (and the woodpile) need regular attention, the chimney requires sweeping twice a year, it's quite hard to regulate the temperature at times .........but I love it. Cheering blaze, glowing embers, smell of logs, and I like to think it keeps us fit. There may come a day when I yearn to just flick a switch I know....

We burn both coal and wood as hardwoods are not easy to come by here and softwoods burn so quickly you would never keep up in the cold weather. We recently tried sawdust logs which use up wood waste, burn for four hours and leave very little ash - I think we may order more of these.

The comfort of it on a cold wet and stormy night like tonight is so worth the effort.

As for candles, I love them both indoors and out. We always light some on the dinner table, and sometimes at lunch as they do in Sweden. I find the steady flame of a candle has a very calming effect.  Again - it is alive. (I tried little battery ones - awful!)

I like the real thing. 

It is what is attractive to me about the elemental.

It is real.


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Fiery, fired up, fire in the belly, trailblazer perhaps -  would any of these describe you?

Perhaps fire is your element!
13 Comments
ChompyChipmunk
18/11/2015 06:02:25 pm

According to the element quiz, my second strongest element is fire. Since my first is water, I may be kind of smokey sometimes!!

I think there's some truth to this though. I'm no blazing inferno, and I really don't like being too warm, however, I do identify with light and fire. I've also been told that my glare (which I try to keep contained most of the time) could be described as fiery or icy. I have some photos from childhood that confirm that!

I love the photo of your bright yellow painting and the daffodils! It's lovely to brighten a dull November day.

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Freda
19/11/2015 01:31:33 pm

Quite fun these quizzes, if they help us know ourselves better!

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Lucille link
19/11/2015 12:07:28 am

I bought an incinerator this year, have a wood burning stove, light candles most days and loved using the fire bowl in the summer. Can't think why fire didn't feature in my elements!

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Freda
19/11/2015 01:34:02 pm

Well just between you and I Lucille, what do they know!! Fun though..

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Lotta link
19/11/2015 01:57:01 am

That's a beautiful picture with all the yellow Freda - I can smell the daffodils! I love the light and warmth of fire and love bonfires at any time of year. My wood burning stove is lit every evening in the winter and sometimes in the day if it's very cold. I don't often remember to light candles but I do enjoy them, so thank you for reminding me!

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Freda
19/11/2015 01:42:44 pm

I love your post today and the raindrop photographs.

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julia
19/11/2015 04:04:22 am

hahaha..i just looked up aries, my sign...first fire sign in the zodiac...i'm often too hot and have to fling off a layer of clothing or two! i'm quite stormy, and can become quite passionate about what concerns me. and if i'm upset...heartburn strikes! it all fits, doesnt it? i do love a fire in the wood stove also...but not too hot, please..:) also candles at dinner. my husband keeps fit by splitting wood all summer..and you are so right, freda...hauling and stacking wood IS hard work!!!

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Freda
19/11/2015 01:45:38 pm

The 'heartburn' made me laugh...sorry Julia, not funny when you have it!

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cath
19/11/2015 08:44:11 am

Coal burning stoves are part of my childhood memories. Today's heat in our home comes from central heating. Maybe that's why fire is a relatively unknown element and came last for me. I like it's meaning of transformation though (and the image of a Phoenix rising from the ashes) and burn a candle every day on my desk (often during dinner as well). It opens the gates to inspiration I like to think.

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julia
19/11/2015 01:39:43 pm

i love your comment, cath: "it opens the gates to inspiration."
we are so lucky to have this wonderful forum to share the wisdom!
thank you, freda!

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Freda
19/11/2015 01:49:46 pm

I am the lucky one here I think! The comments on this blog are thoughtful, kind, supportive, insightful, funny, witty, sharing....thank you all.

Freda
19/11/2015 01:47:04 pm

I shall think of that when lighting my next candle Cath.

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Sarah link
25/11/2015 12:24:45 pm

There is nothing like a real fire!

Fiery, fired up, fire in the belly, trailblazer - no that's definitely not me!
Sarah x

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