The hobbity bit
When I say that 2025 wasn’t a good year, I forget that somehow we managed to finish what was really quite a big job. It all started when out of frustration at the never ending rodent problem down at the wood store end of our living room, I decided that the way...
Rebuilding in 2026
Well, its been a while. I’ll gloss over the absence of posts for the last while and continue as if nothing happened. 2025 (and really 2024) was a bad year – my mum was ill for a long time, and died at the end of May 2025, and then the rest of the year...
Round(ish) house project update
After two years I’ve finally succumbed to covid, so am waiting out my quarantine by updating some of the information on the website. First up is the roundhouse – a project that at one point I thought would never end. After a quick start, the thought of...
Finishing the roundhouse
Five years ago now we started building the strawbale roundhouse, which has been a slow affair, mainly due to not having any good clay with which to make earth plaster. The roundhouse has sat there full of junk – a wasted opportunity that has nagged at me each...