Photo article from the Welsh Hovel: just in case those North Dakota blizzards sweep up the Dee

The preparations for an 1880/81 North Dakota style “long cold winter” continue. My wood shed may be bulging but what happens if President Putin cuts off the UK’s gas supply just as a blizzard sweeps up the River Dee making a journey across the farm yard to my wood stack both hazardous and chilling?

The wood stove is set in a huge fireplace from when the house was built just after the civil war and so slowly I have been filling up the fireplace with wood from my store. There is another huge fireplace in my library whre we have not yet got around to installing a stove. So it too will be turned into an internal store in the days that lie ahead.