Author Archives: Grace

Awoke relatively early (for me) and got to work moving stuff out of the way of destruction. Constructive destruction, that is. Lifted the flagstone path and carted away the large wall stones we’d removed. Meanwhile Antony and his big machines … Continue reading →

The chicken house is taking shape. Today we got the post in the ground and framed the floor, triangulated the whole gubbins and nailed down some floorboards. Tomorrow I’ll get as far as I can on the walls and see … Continue reading →

Well, life goes on and luckily spring is here, or at least it was for a couple of days before it left again. While it was around, I took the opportunity to take the tarps off all the bits of … Continue reading →

We came back from a weekend in Scotland to find that Balthazar was missing. The cat-sitting neighbour hadn’t seen him when coming in to feed them. I put up posters on Monday and all day kind people in the neighbourhood … Continue reading →

Our latest volunteer, Achim, turned out to be very adept at building woodsheds. Now we can move the small stuff to a permanent home rather than its haphazard pile-under-black-plastic system. We finally got rid of the red Honda to Lisa, … Continue reading →