The winters can be very harsh and temperatures always fall well below 0 degrees. Two years ago we had 17° for a few days and 12° for several weeks. We put the central heating in the year after that! All of this means that throughout October and November, we are ‘battening down the hatches’ as my husband says. It means chopping firewood, checking insulation, sweeping the four chimneys, cleaning out the boiler our central heating is oil-fired and ordering the fuel. It always snows and family time is often spent sledging.
