On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:41:27 +0100, Michael Kilpatrick wrote:
And don't forget the kindling as well! We've got loads of firewood, but
I was really struggling to light the fire last night as I had to
scrabble around the shed for something vaguely useful to start the thing
off. And I had no newspaper, and A4 printer paper isn't that good. Oops!

One of my friends takes the fluff out of the tumble dryer's filter and
stuffs it into empty toilet roll tubes to make little fire-starting
'logs'. Works incredibly well.