10.01.2026 Keep on stoking!

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 Saturday 10th 29F/-2C. It should be a sunny day with the wind falling steadily.  The snow is still there. 57F/14C in the room. 40F/4.4C in the greenhouse. I lit the stove straight away. 

 Woke at 5am and then dozed until 7.15. A quiet night for a change. I got up only once at 3am.

 11.10 Full sunshine. 61F/16C in the room. No walk so far. I have been outside to collect a basket full of beech kindling from the container. 

 Then I scraped the snow and some ice from the greenhouse roof. Snow had blown down from the house roof and refrozen onto the glass. The sun has finally come around now and may be able to melt some of it. I'd like to get the maximum solar gain. Despite the sun grazing the horizon.

 The snow drifting on the ground isn't dramatic but is a nuisance for getting around. There are lots of frozen molehills completely hidden under the snow. It would be very easy to twist an ankle. 

 I brought in two more baskets of logs from the greenhouse. Which has made me completely breathless. 

 It reached 58F/14C in the greenhouse thanks to the sunshine. Most of the remaining ice and snow on its glass roof has cleared. 

 15.30 63F/17C in the room. I had a half hour nap and the fire in the stove has burnt down. I am struggling to get to relight from the hot ashes. It's going now. 

 The rest of the afternoon was spent on tending the stove and browsing. The room temperature peaked at 64F/18C and stayed there. The forecast is for -7C/20F overnight. With much lower temperatures elsewhere. 

 Dinner was cauliflower with a salmon pasty. It made a pleasant change.

 8.30 It is already down to 15F/-9.5C. The DMI is saying -5C. The coldest temperature is supposed to be between 6 and 8am tomorrow. No doubt it will be even colder by then. Jylland [Jutland] is supposed to set a 25 year record frost tonight. Below -20C.

10.30 Bedtime. 11F/-12C. 65F/18C in the room. 30F/-1C in the greenhouse. 

 

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