Another exotic thatched animal for todays blog, a majestic lion, but king of the jungle is a real misnomer as everyone knows that the lion lives in the African savannah. What is certain hear is that this fellow certainly is a handsome chap, if

I do see a lot of Mendip stoves in and around the area, but not so much around Saffron Walden, but in the main I find them in and around the Royston area, and I can’t think of seeing any in Suffolk around Haverhill

 
Here is quite a popular stove and a relatively new name on the block, Chilli Penguin Stoves. You might remember that I have previously had a blog featuring the Chilli Penguin Chubby 5 Stove. I recently swept this example of a Chilli Penguin Woody

Here we are sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford again, and on this occasion it was the vicarage at Margaretting near Ingatestone, close to Chelmsford. We have swept the vicarage chimney on around four or five occasions now and are quite familiar with it. To

This is a stove that gets a tremendous amount of use, twenty four seven in the winter, and as a consequence, we sweep the chimney twice a year, just to ensure that there are never any issues. The stove gets so much use

 
Increasingly it seems to me that most of the blogs I write about stoves are either about antique stoves or examples of rare stoves or stoves I am unfamiliar with. Here is a case of the latter, a stove make that I had never

 
I came across this very unusual stove in the vicarage at West Mersea on Mersea Island, whilst sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford. I can with all honesty say that I have never come across a stove quite like it before, it certainly is

 For this week’s offering, here is an unusual stove and a make of stove that I only ever come across infrequently. This is an example of a Fireline FQ5W multi-fuel stove. As I say, I do come across the odd Fireline model, but only

After our recent summer holiday to Cyprus (George & Adrienne’s villa in Latchi again), both Claire and I are beginning to wonder whether they have Building Regulations in Cyprus and if they do, we’re guessing some Cypriots just choose to ignore them! Here are

 
This week’s offering is a rather local stove to us, in the neighbouring village of Debden. The customer here recently changed from an antique Jotul stove that didn’t heat the room adequately, to this stylish, contemporary Hunter Allure 5 Wood-Burning Stove. The stove was