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When I was staying in a yurt in Lapland, where the only heat (and most of the light) was from the wood stove in the middle of the yurt, me and my friend ended up tearing up 70% of my massive, hefty 'Guide to Scandinavia' because our fire building skills were so poor we couldn't get even the smallest kindling to light without using up entire chapters. And without a fire the temperatures started to drop to the same as the outside which was usually around -10 degrees which was not good.
It was funny though *"We're running out of Norway to burn!" "Fuck it, start on Sweden, but leave Stockholm because we're going back that way"
*Then after 3 days of arduous struggle the French man who owned the yurt came in and was like (in broken English) "Your fire is too small, why don't you open the grate at the bottom a little bit?" and he opened it a crack and suddenly the fire was perfect and never went out ever again. I don't know if you can learn from this Jacqui? Do you have a secret ventilation grate?