{"id":8176,"date":"2022-09-14T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2022-09-14T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T07:25:27","slug":"a-rhyming-guide-to-winter-firewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/09\/14\/a-rhyming-guide-to-winter-firewood\/","title":{"rendered":"A rhyming guide to winter firewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As people turn to burning wood over the coming winter in order to reduce heating costs, it's good to have some guidance about which woods to choose for efficiency and effectiveness. \u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/The-Firewood-Poem\">The Firewood Poem<\/a> <\/em>is a good place to start. \u00a0A writing credit for the poem goes to\u00a0Celia Congreve, and <em>Allpoetry.com<\/em> says that it was first published in The Times on March 2nd 1930 although on the same website, Dave Pouting quotes a\u00a0slightly different version that he says was published in the <em>Hunters Journal<\/em> in 1924.<\/p>\n<p>The basic advice is to avoid elm, poplar and elder and go for ash every time. \u00a0Sadly (or happily depending on how you view it) thanks to ash die back, there is plenty of the beloved weed tree around both now and for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"orig_8620901\">Beechwood fires are bright and clear<br \/>\nIf the logs are kept a year,<br \/>\nChestnut's only good they say,<br \/>\nIf for logs 'tis laid away.<br \/>\nMake a fire of Elder tree,<br \/>\nDeath within your house will be;<br \/>\nBut ash new or ash old,<br \/>\nIs fit for a queen with crown of gold.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"orig_8620901\">Birch and fir logs burn too fast<br \/>\nBlaze up bright and do not last,<br \/>\nit is by the Irish said<br \/>\nHawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.<br \/>\nElm wood burns like churchyard mould,<br \/>\nE'en the very flames are cold<br \/>\nBut ash green or ash brown<br \/>\nIs fit for a queen with golden crown.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"orig_8620901\">Poplar gives a bitter smoke,<br \/>\nFills your eyes and makes you choke,<br \/>\nApple wood will scent your room<br \/>\nPear wood smells like flowers in bloom<br \/>\nOaken logs, if dry and old<br \/>\nkeep away the winter's cold<br \/>\nBut ash wet or ash dry<br \/>\na king shall warm his slippers by.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people turn to burning wood over the coming winter in order to reduce heating costs, it's good to have some guidance about which woods to choose for efficiency and effectiveness. \u00a0\u00a0The Firewood Poem is a good place to start....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}