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Essential preparations took place right up until Friday evening. Including having Sarah-May do my roots. Daisy came for a couple of days and we quickly put her to work with a chop saw. Ben, pictured here taking a very well … Continue reading →

Well, the first lot of straw arrived. It was about two hundred bales, a little over a third of the total I need. Since the delivery vehicle couldn’t get up the hill to the site, I enlisted the help of … Continue reading →

So Ben suggested using shredded tyres as infill for the base plate, which, after a bit of research on its properties, I though was a marvellous idea. Especially when I learned that the total cost would be £25. So I … Continue reading →

Woke up to red sky in the morning… and it was a bit rainy, though not anything too horrible. And it got drier as the day went on, at least on the inside of the building. Nora and Ben did … Continue reading →

Is the best kind of snow. When you’re a roofer, anyway. Anna helped me and Ben all weekend, so we got most of the back roof felted and some of the front by the end of Sunday, and we thought … Continue reading →