"Shimshams" wrote in message
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Our central heating is broken and so we're currently using our woodburning
stove.

I'd like it going when we get home, but don't want to run it all day.
Ideally, I want it to light a couple of hours before we get back in the
evening.

I can't find any gadgets to do it, and can't think how they'd work anyway.
My only idea so far is a long candle, lit in the morning, that some hours
later burns down enough to light the kindling.

Any better ideas welcomed!


Time switch, battery and wire wool for the "detonator", plus suitable tinder
of course.