Brother in OZ also misses changing seasons compared to the UK ones. I gather they (a bit N and inland of Brisbane) do have a wet spell and summer is hotter (sometimes sounding unbearable to me but I struggle say even with our own last summer heatwave) but not the same variety he was used to. There again, his daughter/visiting niece thought our climate a bit miserable and often too cold...

We get our wood delivered. There can be problems sometimes with supply and you wind up burning wood that's not as well seasoned as you might like but we aren't burning any old thing.