Wood has arrived, only 1 stere, but enough for the odd autumn or spring visit. Now stacked on a pallet in the cellar.
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Ummm do all those bits definitely fit into your wood burner? Size looks a bit large on some.
If you “stere” at them long enough they get smaller. 
Chopping is good exercise. Or invest in a chainsaw?
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Just a wood splitter - very useful.
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Thanks for asking Karen, there’s just a couple of bits that may struggle, but most of them will be absolutely fine. This one has a wide door on the front and a smaller door on the end to sideload logs if required. but if need be I can split them.
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With an éclateur or coin à fendre and a big log or billot one can split wood nicely (I say ‘one’ as it’s never me that does it).
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I don’t do it either Jane - I’ve got Stuart to do things like that. 
A separate post as bears no relation to wood splitting, but we have just had our offer on a new house accepted. France can be efficient if it wants to. Saw place on Friday, emailed written offer on Sunday, signed formal offer late on Monday and owners agreed this afternoon.
So here’s a question. Do you trust your partner enough to offer on a slightly weird house you have never seen in the flesh? As my OH has only seen photos and my notes.
A very quirky house. 18thC farm house that was pimped at turn of century so loads of art nouveau details. Not that we are actually huge art nouveau fans but think we can make it work. Hope so.
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You’ve been married a while. You know each other’s taste and trust each other.
I don’t think it’s a matter of trust but wisdom, two heads being better than one. I would want us both to have seen it, at least to have the opportunity to spot the potential pitfalls.
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Mine would trust me, but I wouldn’t trust her!
Hope you can sell your place as quickly as you’ve found this one.
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Nope, whenever my wife has viewed a house without me, I’ve known all about the curtains and the pull cord for the bathroom light but nothing about the house itself.
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Everybody should have a Stuart, I could do with one myself, but am a bit too old to change now. 
But talking about logs, although the ground is cleared of undergrowth between the trees of my newly fenced terrain, there are still a few fallen trees lying about and yesterday I set about cutting them into logs and stacking them between 2 handy trees. They were on the direct route across to the new outer gate so needed clearing. Bearing in mind my recent medical history I took a chair up there and sat on it every now and again to make sure I didn’t overdo it. Those breaks were lovely, as I relaxed back in the comparative cool of the trees gazing up into the distant branches and watching all the various birds flitting between them.
That stack makes the 5th scattered around the place just in case for the future, plus the long stack which is the remains of our last farmer delivery many years ago before we switched over to air to air, the cheminee has only been lit about 3 of 4 times during that period because of power cuts, but belt and braces etc. 
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Good luck with your new home.
If it really came to it, I would trust Jim to find a new home, but he would go to a viewing with a list of my no no’s.
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Me too, with Fran, she enthused over the photostat (not even a photo) of a small shack with a table and parasol in front of it and I was aghast.
But we did visit together and I am so glad we did. Still sitting here now, and only one short move left to do, just down the hill.
But not yet. 
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I have a similar socket tester the Martindale but not much good in france as you plug it into a UK/French adapter it reverses phase and neutral
They do, yes - the one above sold on Amazon.fr (if you click on the picture) and is designed for a French socket so should be OK.
I got bit by the phase/neutral thing when I bought one of these
to use with my installation tester and wondered why the house wiring all seemed faulty…
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I made up a lead to cure the issue
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I just swapped the phase/neutral banana plugs when I attached the lead to my tester 
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That looks suspiciously like my lunch. 