Baled Out - Saturday afternoon

Saturday 21 December 2013

With the winter solstice over at lunchtime, we can start looking forward to longer, warmer days now (soon, please) although we can't complain about the weather - so far we have had days of crisp bright sunshine, how lucky is that?

I had to go try to sort out a puncture in the car tyre, and came back to find Dave had thrown himself enthusiastically into the plastering.  Before lunch I'd been helping to tie in the long laths that are just visible above the plaster, covered in blue netting.  We're putting these in as an extra holding mechanism at intervals around the walls.  So we have short stakes, ties, long stakes hammered through two courses from the second level up, and these laths, also tied back to the wood frame.  We have to use the bale needle to poke through from inside to wrap twine round the lath and back.  I've been tying baling twine for three days now ... ouch!

 

 

 Pete, cutting blue mesh and stapling it on around the new woodwork ready for plastering.  Pete made the supporting frames under the big window boxes, shown in the photo below.

 Dave looking daunted at the plastering yet to be done!  Still more laths to cut and fix and net as well, but maybe we can be all plastered up in another two days?

 Robin, fixing laths, an inside job.

 With Jade - in charge of cutting and storing lengths of twine for the tiers-in.

Early evening, everyone left for home and Dave gone off to do a gig - with what reserves of energy I can't imagine.  Just me and the cat.  The cat very curious about these strange things called 'walls'.  She's never experienced them before and she's not going to like them ...

Probably just us from tomorrow, people have lives to get on with.  Absolutely hugely grateful for all the help and enthusiasm and energy and youth that has been brought to the project.  Wow!