17-18 December 2013
Two days to get everything done. Tuesday turned into a housekeeping day - we had no food in the house, and needed to stock up for willing workers on Thursday, take out bins and renew the gas bottles - all that took up half the day, then we made clay slip and cut straw and tried to think of everything that still needed doing before Thursday. Dave tried to get the new chainsaw going (the last one appears to have been nicked since last winter) as Pete from Neohori has offered to cut our olive wood in exchange for logs, but it refused to start for about two hours of messing.
Tuesday evening we decided to treat ourselves to our first home cooked roast dinner since last winter - it's far too hot to run a cooker in summer. But at the point when we had trays of chicken and roast vegetables, we realised we had nowhere to put them out of reach of the neighbourhood cats until they cooled down for the fridge. So we moved a table into our crowded little bedsit and ate upstairs in style.
Two days to get everything done. Tuesday turned into a housekeeping day - we had no food in the house, and needed to stock up for willing workers on Thursday, take out bins and renew the gas bottles - all that took up half the day, then we made clay slip and cut straw and tried to think of everything that still needed doing before Thursday. Dave tried to get the new chainsaw going (the last one appears to have been nicked since last winter) as Pete from Neohori has offered to cut our olive wood in exchange for logs, but it refused to start for about two hours of messing.
Tuesday evening we decided to treat ourselves to our first home cooked roast dinner since last winter - it's far too hot to run a cooker in summer. But at the point when we had trays of chicken and roast vegetables, we realised we had nowhere to put them out of reach of the neighbourhood cats until they cooled down for the fridge. So we moved a table into our crowded little bedsit and ate upstairs in style.
Next day, Pete arrived to cut and clear the olive wood to make a bit more space around the build site.
Dave and I constructed a clay-slip pit out of six bales and covered it with tarpaulin
Dave dug out our saved mound of clay and carted it round to the pit for soaking, while I got on with tying the wall bales back to the wood frame, and clearing the floor spaces all around the inside of the walls for when the tying job moves higher
And then we were not quite ready, but too tired to do anything more about it - we'll just have to be up early tomorrow!
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