"CB's fireplace"
The above two pictures show two parts of a roughly 120 cm long oak log that has a girth of about 50 cm without the knots. The special thing about it is that (a) it is from a German oak, so you do not just have the wood, but also the myth, Wagner and all... ;-) (b) it is from a tree in the park around the villa my mother lived in in Hamburg, Germany, towards the end of the Eighties of last century (c) it has stayed at least 15 years in a heated apartment so that it is dry like tinder.
If you are the happy owner of an open fireplace (I used to be!) and are the first one to call me saying that you are going to pick it up at my address, it's yours for free. (The second caller will get a similar, a bit longer, beech log from that same park.) You will have to promise though that you will take a great picture of that log's fantastic burning in your fireplace and send it to me to become the "logo" or "masthead" of my new cooperative blog
