"john royce" wrote in message
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tesco are selling those 'fire pits' round bowl fireplaces that you could
have a small log fire on your patio.

then they sell for £19 a paper compressor (apparently you make newspapers
wet and then stuff them in and compress them, then when they dry out, kind
of solid; they burn like logs of wood).

has anyone tried all this? the idea sounds great (who doesn't like a
bonfire, even a tiny one) but how does it work out in reality? i'm
thinking if it was really good, people would have been doing it for years.
i know these compressors came on to the market years ago.
More years ago then I care to remember, while I was at Uni, some friends and
I rented a place with open fires. It came equipped with a paper compressor.
We found it worked really well once we got the hang of it. Adding a small
amount of washing up liquid to the water seemed to improve the "logs".

HTH

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Kathy

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