Author Archives: Grace

Well, I may have done my back no good at all, but we have a frame for a porch floor now. Elmo was good enough to bring most of the 4.8m lengths of board down from the top of the … Continue reading →

I just had a shower and it was getting on towards time, really. I smelled like a hobo. Just back from a fairly productive four days at the cabin, cracking on with claying out the inside of the building. Weather … Continue reading →

Here, as promised, is a small selection of photos from the recent works. Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible to get a decent photo of the whole house, as it’s under a fairly low-slung tarp cover, and to see under it, you … Continue reading →

We’ve sort of been rained off, though we did persevere for a while through it. It just turns into such a morass up there in prolonged rain, because the soil is just 200 years’ worth of cultivation and leaf-fall. It’ll … Continue reading →

I set off this morning at quarter to six to pick up a velux flashing kit I’d bought on eBay and head over to Liverpool to collect a scaffolding tower I’d bought. The forecast for this afternoon and evening is … Continue reading →