Mrs Growster and I. over the years, have lived in several houses equipped with a small Rayburn.
Mum and Dad had one soon after I was born, and we got rid of our last one here - a Regent, about eighteen years ago, because it was just not doing the job it might have done previously, when everything was new, efficient and dandy.
What we could never do on any of them, was cook anything like a full meal, let alone get it hot enough to do much justice even to a kettle, and we wonder how Mum managed to do all that roasting and boiling for four of us!
Our last one was OK for - say - porridge, overnight, and was a great source of warmth, but how on earth it was regulated to cook, and how Mum managed to time everything on a Sunday was a marvel in itself!
What are they like these days? Ours were all coke or coal fired!