Early start for a half term holiday Monday morning

Oliver is heading out to Berlin on a joint German and History tour for just over three days.

it was a 3am start so that he could be at school at 4am, in readiness for an 8am flight over to Berlin.

Rather incredibly, he was up and about way quicker than a typical school day !!!!

not sure if he has truly realised that there is a LOT of walking in his future in Berlin…..

Chimney has been swept…

… so we are ready for wood burning action….

typically it is a little warmer this evening so will probs be waiting until next week to go for our first burn of the autumn ☺️

Elliot and Simon chopped the logs from last spring and have placed them around the back of the garage to dry – they might be usable next winter.

We will have the remains of the large tree in the back garden that died last year to chop soon enough – once we have found a tree surgeon to carefully take it down for us. It will likely provide a couple of years of heat once it down and chopped accordingly – big job ahead of us however….