Three stère

We had been running short of logs for the fire, so we reached out to a friend in the village next to ours to see if she knew anyone who had any. Her son very kindly offered to help us out. So we kicked this morning off unloading three stère of wood, in the clear beautiful crisp winter air. The low winter sun was shining and the sky was blue - what a great way to start the day.

Whilst we unloaded, we chatted in french and English, helping each other out to try and improve our language skills. I also learnt what a ‘stère’ is. It’s how they measure firewood in France. A stère de bois is one cubic metre of wood cut into 50cm logs.

The wood store is now looking healthy again, and we can relax into those cold winter evenings, and roaring log fires.