Firestarter

There is a definate chil in the air. Most will have noticed the drop in temperature this week and many will be putting on extra layers of clothing and turning up the heating. No clearer sign of the coming winter can be found then when Alan at The Lamb lights his fire in the bar and that event took place yesterday. The winter routine will now be established with the call for more logs and chief stoker Frost attending to his duties.

It has to be said though that there is nothing like the sight of a good log fire to make you feel more cheerful at this time of the year. I suppose its in our genes and goes back to when our ancestors sat round the camp fire enjoying a rib of roast mammoth and a drop of whatever beverage they produced back then. I suspect its these ancestral memories that make open fires in pubs so popular. Nightstores and radiators dont have the same effect somehow.