I thought there was just a willow tree here, but can you see the elder growing with it?
I was quite amazed when I spotted it yesterday. I think the elder will have to come out.
Well, I spent another two hours battling with the undergrowth:
and carting it away:
It feels like I’m not really [...]
That’s how it feels here sometimes, even though we’re actually 70 miles from the coast to both the east and the west. But the path through our field is a bit like a cliff path in places, and the traffic on the bypass in the valley tends to roar in a bit of a sealike [...]
Some days, it’s actually very difficult to go out there and work, when it’s cold, windy, wet, and staying in the kitchen by a roaring fire is so much more tempting. Today was one of those days.
“Just one barrow,” I say to myself, on such occasions.
One barrow of wood from the demolished shed:
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Pros:
They’re usually pretty good at designing buildings.
They’ve usually had more experience of doing this than we have.
They’re supposed to know all the technical stuff.
They’re often used to dealing with planners and builders etc.
Cons:
We’d be asking them to work out how to spend our money!
We’d have to pay them loads of money on top for doing so!
We wouldn’t get the fun (Yeah, ask me again in [...]
I’ve been collecting images that resonated with me, in planning this project. Here are some of my favourites so far (click on pics to expand) :
The following are from the Cascadia Cob website:
From the Earthship site:
From Simon Dale’s site:
From Treehugger.com :
From Green Building Guide:
From Davidreport.com :
I’ll be posting more images to inspire me (and their sources) as and when I come across them.
