Lighting a Wood Burning / Multi Fuel stove

[NorthernRaider]

Yup age does have its benefits, when i was a kid our family used to spend the summer hols in a couple of log chalets on the coast in order to get away from the pollution and deprivation of 1960s Teesside We had GAS lighting I had the job to change the mantels when they burned out, I also had the job of collecting the milk which was a 2 mile walk to the farm and back. Coal and wood fire provided cooking and heating and hot water for bating was done using SEA water. Saying that in the summer a small pool caused by a fresh water stream running down to the sea often used to get quite warm so we would often bath in that. We all had to learn how to light fires on a morning.