The Last Bale

2-3 November 2015

The second-from-last row of bales, with notches for bottles, went up as soon as the weather improved again.

 The bottles look rather fabulous when the sun catches them, and we hope they will be even better when surrounded by white plaster.

 From the outside.

 Supper time - top row with pipe vents installed.  Dave hauling the tarps back into position.

 The last bale - a bit of a sorry one, which is why it got left till last.  

Unfortunately we have quite a lot of space left to fill, and this one won't fill it.  But the bales reach the roof at the outside edge, only the roof-slope area inside is still empty, between the joists, so we thought, what if we put some other insulation in those spaces, then we don't need to use up the remaining straw.  It just so happens that we have a huge heap of ex-Nisos yacht pillows to recycle.  We'll jam them in behind boards at the top of the wall, and we can finish without sourcing more straw.

One other bale - from the garden centre - impregnated with oyster mushrooms, apparently - we've stuck it under the kitchen table to see what happens.