15.12.2025 What a Rip-off!

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 Monday 15th 44F/6.7C. Another cloudy, windy but dry day. 62F/16.7C in the room.

Up at 6am after setting the alarm for 6.30.  I have a doctor's appointment this morning.

 9.15 Back from the doctors. Shopped while I was in the village. 

 I have ordered new screws for the caport roof in Torx, stainless steel. 

 11.30 Brief, watery sunshine. It is bitterly cold in the wind. I have been sheltering behind the house while emptying the trailer of usable firewood. There were at least two large wheelbarrows of worthless rubbish in the last trailer load of logs. Even after my saving all the potentially useful bits for kindling. A bit disappointing given the price I am paying at the furniture factory. I am tempted to go back to the timber yard. Except that there is no guarantee of getting dry logs there. The price is much the same. 

 I need to fetch more logs. I am down to only a few day's worth. In theory I have a lot of firewood in the vast heap of chestnut. The problem is that I have no idea if any of it is dry. Three years of exposure to [limited] sunlight and wind should have done some good. I had better try some logs with the moisture contents meter.  

 The furniture factory, log vendor was on holiday. Not back until Saturday. I would have run out of logs by then. So I risked a run to the timber yard. Which is practically on the way home. 

 I ordered and paid for half a cubic meter of logs. What I got was less than a quarter. The red line at the top of the picture is half way up the sides of the trailer. That is exactly half a cubic meter. 

A young man brought the logs to the trailer in a bucket on a front loader. Dropped half of them on the ground and just walked away. Chip on his shoulder? Or what? It is no wonder their vast firewood shed is literally full to overflowing! If this were Gravely Blighted I would have rung the local Trading Standards Office. Denmark has no consumer protection. If I name the timber yard here [online] I will end up in jail or be heavily fined. The guilty are protected by law. The victim often pays far more in fines for invasion of online privacy rights. Than those found guilty in court! 

 Dinner was sardines on toast with halved tomatoes. No pictures.  

 

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