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\"Wood<\/a>It’s that time of year again, the clock go back to GMT, the end of BST<\/a>, the nights are darker, the mornings temporarily lighter and those that suffer from Seasonal Affective Diorder (SAD) start getting grumpy.<\/p>\n

I actually quite like this time of year, once again things are all changing and those long evenings snuggled up in front of the fire (or wood-burning stove in our case) whilst storms are raging outside are really nice. As usual though I may have under-estimated the amount of wood we need, so I’ll be spending plenty of time on dry days collecting firewood from the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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