First fire

At last, we have a wood-fire installed in our house. It took years of umming and ahhing but here it sits, our Tiny Trad convectional/radiant stove with its long flue (tall enough to clear the top of the roof on our two-storey house) and clean lines, sitting on a base of thick slate tiles. It's a picture and here one of the first light-up, made yesterday afternoon while the hot nor' easterly winds blew (we were advised by the installation guy that the first burn was a smelly one as the coatings on the stove and flue 'burned off' and that it was wise to light up with the windows and doors open - so a cold winter's night wasn't the best option and a hot summers day was.)
We are looking forward to cosy nights around this cheerful fire, burning wood that we've grown here in our owner-planted forest - manuka, tarata, kotukutuku, kowhai, alder and birch.