Today we finally finished the plastering, and here is the bedroom, which has undergone one of the largest changes. Here it is when we started – Here’s the little bathroom window above, and the room as originally found, before we had uncovered the window...
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...
It’s amazing how a couple of days without rain make such a difference – suddenly we are making great progress. More of the fruit bushes are making their way down to the field, and out of pots, (at last, we’ve been carting them around for an age), and...
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...
This weekend we had lots of help here at the roundhouse – Jim, Mark, Helen, Michael, Alexey, Steven and Denise did a fine job and we finished off all the lime-hemp plaster that we have, so 3 out of 5 wall panels now have a scratch coat of plaster. Michael and...
