Ash before Oak, we're in for a .......

[toprotter]

Beech wood fires burn bright and clear

if the logs are kept for a year,

Store your beech for christmas tide,

with new cutt holly laid beside,

Chestnuts only good, they say,

if for years its stored away,

Birch and firwood burn to fast

blaze to bright and do not last,

flames from larch will shoot up high,

dangerously the sparks will fly.

but ashwood green an ashwood brown

are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.

Oaken logs, if dry and old,

keep away the winters cold,

popular gives a bitter smoke,

fills your eyes and makes you choke,

elmwood burns like churchyard mould

Even the flames are cold,

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread

so it is in Ireland said,

Applewood will scent a room,

peaswood smeels like flowers abloom,

but ashwood wet and ashwood dry

A King may warm his slippers by.

[Giles Hill]

Ash before oak... that's a joke.

 

Ash is never before oak and we always get a soak.

[tommer9]

Beech wood fires burn bright and clear

if the logs are kept for a year,

Store your beech for christmas tide,

with new cutt holly laid beside,

Chestnuts only good, they say,

if for years its stored away,

Birch and firwood burn to fast

blaze to bright and do not last,

flames from larch will shoot up high,

dangerously the sparks will fly.

but ashwood green an ashwood brown

are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.

Oaken logs, if dry and old,

keep away the winters cold,

popular gives a bitter smoke,

fills your eyes and makes you choke,

elmwood burns like churchyard mould

Even the flames are cold,

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread

so it is in Ireland said,

Applewood will scent a room,

peaswood smeels like flowers abloom,

but ashwood wet and ashwood dry

A King may warm his slippers by.

 

Nice one! Been looking for that for ages.

[Mesterh]

A couple my old Granny used to say.

 

Ash before Oak...oak must be dead.

 

Wet leaves at midday...musta been raining.

 

What a wise old owl she was.

[skyhuck]

Man who go too bed with itchy bottom wake up with smelly finger.

 

If you want to wake up with a smile on your face, go too bed with a coat hanger in your mouth.

[David oakman]

Words of wisdom there skyhuck. or did i mean norman wisdom LOL:001_smile: