24 April 2015
Time to start putting the bales in position. This is the most complex area we've tried to build: there are a lot of very small spaces, a lot of criss-crossing woodwork and we have a diagonal up against a sloping roof. It is definitely a challenge. If we had planned to build a straw-bale house (rather than one built of cob), it wouldn't have had a corner like this in it.
We split the first bale into four small slabs to fit under the window, then stopped for lunch. Dave went in search of wild asparagus to add to the salad, and came back with a tortoise. An interesting omen for our corner-building!
It is the first tortoise I've seen on our land in all the time we've been here. They used to be very common, apparently, but so many were taken for pets that they've become rare.
Dave put speedy down on the ground and it shot off (in tortoise terms) into the hedge. Hope it does well there.
Time to start putting the bales in position. This is the most complex area we've tried to build: there are a lot of very small spaces, a lot of criss-crossing woodwork and we have a diagonal up against a sloping roof. It is definitely a challenge. If we had planned to build a straw-bale house (rather than one built of cob), it wouldn't have had a corner like this in it.
We split the first bale into four small slabs to fit under the window, then stopped for lunch. Dave went in search of wild asparagus to add to the salad, and came back with a tortoise. An interesting omen for our corner-building!
It is the first tortoise I've seen on our land in all the time we've been here. They used to be very common, apparently, but so many were taken for pets that they've become rare.
Dave put speedy down on the ground and it shot off (in tortoise terms) into the hedge. Hope it does well there.
End of day one - two bales cut, retied in small sections and installed in the wall. Also, unseen, stuffing down the inside of each side of the central window to insulate. Naomi came to help and picked a bunch of flowers to grace our new windowsill. We have planned three days to do this area.
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