Month: January 2011
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Nuts and Bolts
Anyone who has encountered my stuttering inability to remember the proper name for things … things like the constituent parts of a roof or a staircase, or the name of a particular tool, or of different types of nuts, bolts and other fasteners will understand my attraction to this page found on an American website……
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Shelving and storage
I have a lot of shelving and storage to build, install or buy for the barn. At the moment there is very little real storage. That makes things nice and open – no big closed in furniture and nice uncluttered walls, but it’s not very practical. In my usual way, I’ve been trawling the web…
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the lost soul of the nation…
In my slow, intermittent, literary stroll through Roger Deakin’s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm I stumbled across another quotation that I couldn’t help but agree with… I really do want people to come home to a real fire. A nation without the flames of a fire in the hearth, and birds singing outside the open…
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The ‘garden’
Suffice to say the garden is a bit of a bomb site…
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a mosaic of cut log ends…
Whilst the interiors of this barn conversion in Austria are a little too coldly architectural for my liking, I love this external wall. It evokes a favourite Roger Deakin quote. (It’s also a bit daft that it’s the north facade of the building as the logs will get no sun on them to aid in…
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Building Progress ~ December 2010
Update on building progress during December 2010… Snow, snow, snow…