No but it was back in the day when we’d clear the fire out and be left with clinker each day. We didn’t have the bed of wood ash that you have these days with wood burners.
It wasn’t especially blowy, it was more just super hot air
To be fair no one was really worrying about air quality in houses then. We were in London so burning smokeless coal too, the grenadier was really good for getting that alight
I just looked up the price. Jesus wept