The long winter months usually sees us crowding around the fire.....few years back we had chimneys burning in every house but because most of the time it is cumbersome cleaning it .......now a days people have done away with chimneys. Instead we have charcoal fire like the one here or of course as we move on with time the electric room heaters which might be blowers or halogen like the one i use in my room have slowly taken over......and then as we crawl to bed each of us would find a hot bag for our selves. ( no pun intended!!! lol.)