Chimney

3-4 Sept 3015

So the bales were neatly stacked and the day's work done by 8.30 am.  But then we heard from George the chimney builder that he could come the next day.  We looked at the music room and realised that we had only one day to clean up and whitewash the panels in the wall that would be affected.  So, another long day - by 7 pm I had scraped excess plaster, scrubbed the lime-stained wood and put three coats of limewash on four panels ready for chimneying. 

 It looks like one of those Tangram puzzles - you can just see from the photo the four panels that have been spruced up

 Dave, meanwhile, was out measuring and making ladder base frames for the bale wall - under the sailcloth covers.

George's work on the chimney - first stage, fireproof backing board.

Sometime later, the first piece of pipe fitted into square chimney blocks and plastered over.

 While Dave continued making base frames, for the west face ...

 ... and the last little bit of the north wall

 and I played with our new super-toy for the garden - a wood chipper.  Finally we can clear away the mounds of twiggy waste littering the land, chip it into mulch and bung it on every growing surface we can construct.  The first few loads went onto this dormant artichoke bed, one of our few perennial crops that seem to do okay without much attention,.