After an interesting conversation with Michael Rooney this morning, I started to investigate using Griffith’s valuation, and sure enough, there’s the cottage, in plot 38, back in 1863, looking remarkably similar in shape to the way it does today. Even the...
Although it doesn’t have quite the same feeling of outdoor freedom that the composting loo at the farm had, our new compost throne is very fine, and ready to answer the call of nature. I read somewhere that the difference between a compost loo and a composting...
After a couple of frantic days activity, we have what passes for a kitchen. It came in a form that I like to call ‘extreme flatpack’ – ie some lengths of 3×2, and pine boarding. The old pine ceiling from the extension has come up well, and forms...
The plastering continues, and we’ve now finished the living room, most the kitchen, and some of the hall. Huge thanks to Mark and Jim for coming to help and working really, really long hours over the weekend, and doing some of the really annoyingly unreachable...
We’ve used all manner of “eco” technologies in the cottage, and my favourite so far is the sheep’s wool insulation, which came from Black Mountain Insulation. After a long day yesterday we had a third of the house done, and suddenly the space...
