A truckload of firewood delivered today! It's a bit odd, having to buy the stuff whereas we used to have a 'working bee' up at the old place. We had a macrocarpa tree( the Americans know it as a Monteray Cypress) up there which kept us in wood to burn for 10 years ! It was a biggie and had the advantage that the tree didn't rot like pine might have. Today's load needed stacking under cover , it's what is known locally as 'old man pine' and you can smell the pine resin in it. These are usually old, overmature trees , huge but not suitable for timber because of the number of unpruned branches and hence a profusion of knots. Fortunately these make for good burning. Two hours of barrowing logs around into the woodshed really required a half hour in the spa to get over it!