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We've had a busy few weeks and another few ahead of us, with two grants due this month (one very soon) and of course, completely unrelated to those, we are very keen to set up the renewables and start heating up the house before the temperatures really drop. How did we run out of yet another year?! To fill in the "downtime", I will tell you about my kiln plans, still very much in my head only, and where we currently are with them. It links back to one of those grants and a bi

Are you ready to hear our sob story? Typo intended... It has been nearly three years since the inception of this little project. Back in 2023 when we were putting the wetland in place, we asked the digger man to make a little rectangular dip in the ground for our foundation (in hindsight it ended up a little too deep). Then nothing happened for almost a year. It was our intention to hold a cob workshop at the first SPAB party but as no teacher was found at the time, this idea

It's been nearly three weeks since last real construction work took place. We've just about recovered. But we can now report that the front wall is finished!!! The wall is actually a fairly complicated piece of construction. It contains two doors, a window and a bunch of holes for the joists to slot into, in time... it wouldn't be a stretch to say that there was a moment when those holes nearly didn't go in... And the cornerstones!!! I heard a lot of cornerstone jokes, corner

It's been an incredibly busy few weeks and our site is undergoing some significant changes. We have been able to move along with the...

Last weekend was Chris' birthday weekend! So we decided to go to the mill for a change! Hahahahahaha! Nah, we're too predictable! We went...

Oh dear! We have not posted anything since last year!!! Where I come from it is considered good luck to grasp at your button when you...

We are so excited to have Dr Colin Rynne on board to help us record the mill and gearing and answer some of the questions we've been...

Chris and I put up this prop yesterday. And we didn't even get stoned. A very scary experience, standing under this wall, knowing it...

No, not a typo! I'm sighing with every gust of wind and every hailstone shower, while I sit at my work computer wondering what might be...