Coal

Gran still uses coal and wood to heat the house. We have to bring in buckets from the bunker to put on the fires. It is strange to think that the coal probably comes from a long way away now when it would once have come from Scotland, Wales or the north of England.  


"Here are the stiffening hills, here the rich cargo
Congealed in the dark arteries,
Old veins 
That hold Glamorgan's blood.
The midnight miner in the secret seams,
Limb, life, and bread."

(Mervyn Peake)