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The woodburner broke, broke the day after the heating oil ran out, the weekend of storm Arwen which was coincidently the coldest weekend of the year. While our woes were a mere trifle compared to those who have been without electricity for 11 days since the storm, it was none the less a tad chilly in HQ.

MBAOSPW managed to remember what sort of wood burner we had, contact the manufacturer, get a parts list and within 48 hours new baffle, fire bricks and fire rope had arrived and all that was needed was a few spare hours to take the old one apart and carefully  rebuild it. We had the technology. 

Ta dah!!! First person to say its too hot can sleep outside. 

Meanwhile. Yours truly dressed as a jolly fat man to raise money for local charity and was very surprised at how little padding was needed to fill the suit. Ahem.