Brockley Logs On
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: Can I ask her about her log?
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Many have.
- Twin Peaks
Brockley has its own log supplier: Brockley Logs, which delivers locally or has a stall at Brockley Market. There is not that much more to be said about this, but we thought it was worth noting. They are sourced in Kent and they are "tight-grain" if that's what you are into.
50 comments:
Keep it tight.
i keep meaning to ask them at the market, but isn't Brockley in a smokeless zone?
For ref:
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/environment/air-pollution/Pages/Bonfires.aspx
Certain wood burners are exempt:
http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/appliances.php?country=e
we got stocked up for Christmas and the winter months and got a 250kg bag delivered by Tony (aka 'Brockley Logs')
Great quality logs, nothing like the damp stuff you buy at petrol stations.
He has a webpage with more info
brocleylogs.com
Perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree, but if it is a smokless zone then it goes against the grain, surely. We need to get to the root of the CO2 problem, otherwise this guy will be branching out all over.
@Little - they can also be used to fill up an empty and unused fireplace, if like me, you have lost contact with all of your basic survival skills and just like things to look pretty.
"if like me, you have lost contact with all of your basic survival skills and just like things to look pretty"
Better re-learn them quick, financial meltdown is just around the corner. I was talking to an IFA last week, he suggested buying a dog and a gun was the best option, you twig?
Apocalyptic stuff. Perhaps we need to start our own sect of the Branch Davidians.
Who's the lady with the log?
I've got wood.
@Anon 12:49
They call her the log lady.
@Nick
It's easy to get in touch with your inner Ray Mears. Just take a match to your kindle.
And the owls, of course, are not what they seem...
(I do like your quotes - whether or not I recognise them...)
Bob would be able to tell you more about the log lady...
I understand Jonah has ordered a couple of the 250kg bags.
Only because I planted the idea subliminally in his head.
Careful, I'm not sure where PR experts fit in the post financial armagedon world, difficult to spin starvation and pesitlance as anything other than A Bad Thing.
Engineers and associated geeks will be fine though.
Funnily enough, I've just been having a conversation to that effect with one of my colleagues who used to be a financial journalist...
Leaf it out
Brockley needs a One Eyed Jacks.
The owls are not what they seem
Said that already...
A real lost opportunity - I always thought - not having an early X-file opened on Dale Cooper as he became after the last episode - just the sort of think Fox should investigate.
There is no doubt that, economically , the world is going to hell.
Too many people have been allowed to spend money they don't have for far too long.
And it won't get better until we start accepting that not everyone can - or should - have big TVs, iPhones, exotic holidays etc etc.
As for logs - I'd really rather people burnt nothing in
this ever so polluted city of ours. Your filthy smoke is my child's next breath. If you want log fires go and live in
a forest. (And not Forest Hill before Monkeyboy pipes up ...)
Leaf it out, I wood not av be-leafed it! Butt if I treed hard grained enough I might get some knotted understanding. Being as thick as a plank and now having twigged out all the splinter groups on this trunk. Maybe I should branch out . . . oh I can't be bonsied any more
Wot no yule log puns? I felled sure that there wood be some, to get the sap rising. Must tree harder.
Tree menduous fun, eh readers?
@Lou
Yes
Yes
Yes
No (considerate fires of natural substances pose little heaklth hazard)
I laid a massive Brockley log this morning.
Lou, if you must pine for a simpler time before debts please read up on history. If not, please form a splinter group for similar minded miserablists, I find the timber of your arguments tedious in the extreme. (I'm available for weddings, birthdays and bar mitzvahs. I thank you, g'night)
Christmas trees? Vaguely related to post, does anyone know if there are xmas trees for sale by the Hobgoblin in New X Gate? tried to get one at the market on saturday but the man wouldn't unwrap it for me to look at...
They've got some at Aladdins Cave.
Free logs located in the skip on Cranfield road at the moment.
"but the man wouldn't unwrap it for me to look at..."
Are you serious?
Yes there are at the Hobgoblin (and yes, they will un- and re-wrap)
And at the little DIY shop in Ladywell... fully unwrapped.
+trees
The best-shaped Christmas tree we ever had was got on 23rd December a few years back from the DIY shop in Ladywell.
sounds a bit late to be buying a Christmas tree...
And what my, dear weird, would the latest allowable date be if you were in charge?
There are/were (worth checking if it's too late now) also Christmas trees for sale at Brockley Market on Saturday and at Crofton Park library.
Not really - good bargains, keeps well into the new year. I would agree, though, that when we left it until Christmas Eve once that was rather difficult...
The first turned up on the recycling pile at Hilly Fields promptly last year on boxing day.
Hmm... can one rely on that? We usually don't "do" Christmas until the following weekend. (And reusing is better than recycling...)
Yes, maybe not one to take a punt on.
Perhaps timeshare with somone leaving town on the 26th?
I bought a tree once. Got home, unwrapped it, and it turned out to be a killer whale. I wouldn't mind but have you seen how much they eat?
True story
Too chancy - and my son wants to get on with decorating and things so we will probably go around to the Hobgoblin tomorrow with our wheelie bin.
I get my tree from the roadside between Christmas and NY, there are always loads.
""but the man wouldn't unwrap it for me to look at..."
"Are you serious?"
Yes! of course I'm serious... you don't want a wonky tree or one that's all side and no up. It's totally normal to be able to see the tree before you buy. I was very surprised they hadn't bought the magic wrapping machine with them especially as the trees were pretty pricey (and they had a van).
Anyway, I've bought one now, £15, four foot, lovely stuff.
Agreed, I can't believe anyone buys a tree without looking at it first. Sometimes they have dead branches, sometimes they are nothing but stalk at the top, sometimes they are top heavy or wonky, etc.
I demand perfection from my trees. GM Xmas trees can't come soon enough.
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