Chilly night tonight.

So I decided to give the fireplace a try. It works well enough to warm this little lounge but burns through the wood pretty quickly. Probably because its so small and can't hold a decent sized log. I had a really good look at the slow combustion stove and its way too rusted out to use which is unfortunate. There is probably no insulation in the walls to retain the heat once we go to bed and it will be freezing in the morning. I'm sure with the stove going also in it's heyday it would have been quite snug in the little old house once the fire place bricks heated up.