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So we just spent all of Saturday pulling flax. It was only a small field, 10 x 10m I reckon. Flax has to be pulled by hand, roots and all. I didn’t think it would take as long as it did although I was prepared for it, knowing everything seems to take longer than I anticipate… We were pretty shattered by the end of it and my knuckles are still pretty sore today, Monday... For a couple of days, my body was in that stiff state that comes after one has spent a day doing something

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

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...