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Recovering, rethinking, redesigning, rescheduling
OK, we’ve had a complete change of plan, and the schedule has gone to pot. We were going to miss the window for building anyway (straw bale walls need 3 months to settle before the first frosts)… more →
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Recovering, rethinking, redesigning, rescheduling
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Gill wrote 5 months ago: OK, we’ve had a complete change of plan, and the schedule has gone to pot. We were going to mi … more →
You'd think it would be easy
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Gill wrote 6 months ago: We haven’t even started on the house itself yet: we’re just focusing on the retaining wa … more →
Sneaky tree
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Gill wrote 10 months ago: I thought there was just a willow tree here, but can you see the elder growing with it? I was quite … more →
Hero son
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Gill wrote 1 year ago: Best thing a computer-addicted son could say to his mother, when she’s worrying about how to p … more →
Don't read this if you're eating
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Gill wrote 1 year ago: … or otherwise squeamish. In fact, if you’d rather not think about anything to do with t … more →
A highly technical plan (NOT!) and some more grass. And some books. Maybe.
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Gill wrote 1 year ago: Here’s our latest, highly untechnical layout plan for the field, cobbled together by Tom and m … more →
I mowed the new grass!
Gill wrote 1 year ago: Albeit in a very on-grid kind of way… That’s 100m of cabling coming from the house. It w … more →
And then there was light
Gill wrote 1 year ago: We made some electricity! Tom got an old washing machine motor and wired it up to a bulb: Then by tu … more →
Lessons learned, decisions made and lots still to decide
Gill wrote 1 year ago: Lesson number one: When clearing land, do not simply pull out all the top growth of a big area, then … more →
The grid in our heads
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Gill wrote 1 year ago: Working in the field yesterday, listening to the radio, I heard that our government is about to sell … more →
Rain stops play
Gill wrote 1 year ago: On the plus side, it fills up the water butt (which I drained the last drop from yesterday) but on t … more →
Update
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Gill wrote 1 year ago: There’s not much happening for us at the moment on the off-grid front. We’re focusing ou … more →
The pros and cons of employing architects
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Gill wrote 1 year ago: Pros: They’re usually pretty good at designing buildings. They’ve usually had more exper … more →
