Month: May 2011

  • Back wall… the final strait…

    Nearly there – TV aerial to move, a couple of patches of pointing to complete, drainage to tidy up, roof-line to fill and point and Juliet balcony to install then – DONE! (I like the jaunty angle of this photograph) From Barn Conversion 2011 Quite a change from before already: From Before

  • Building Progress ~ April 2011

    Update on building progress during April 2011…

  • The casualties of lawn

    I’ve spent countless hours over the last few weeks digging out stones… From Barn Conversion 2011 …and roots and weeds… From Barn Conversion 2011 …to give a my new lawn a chance of being green and luscious… From Barn Conversion 2011 Grass seed and fertiliser went down last Saturday and it’s rained plenty since then…

  • Projects are stackable!

    I’ve often been accused of never finishing things that I start – I’m not a completer-finisher my wife tells me. So I was particularly pleased to read number 7 of the ‘Makers Rules’ published recently on Wondermark.com. PROJECTS ARE STACKABLE. It’s not that I’m starting something new before finishing something old – I’m nesting the…

  • Biomass Boilers

    With a small patch of woodland containing mainly young ash trees, a patch of willow around the pond and plenty of hedges I’ve long been interested in the potential for burning ‘home-grown’ biomass, from chips, through twigs to logs. So I thought a review of the domestic biomass boiler options was in order… There are…

  • Cob pizza oven

    Since spending far too long for my wife’s liking queuing for fresh pizza from a small portable clay pizza oven at the Abergavenny food festival, I’ve fancied one of my own. The Eden Project sell one for £600 and apparently Jamie Oliver tries to flog one for over £3000, but you can build one from…