Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged eco-building, eco-home, greener living, salvage, solar power on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We have walls!
Travelled down by train the other day to check on progress and was delighted to find the new kitchen surrounded by rough plywood walls on three sides, with gaps where the windows and doors are to go and a rafter or two overhead to give an idea of the roof height. It looked [...]
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged railway carriage house, eco-building, dream home, Add new tag, seaside house, shed on May 18, 2008 | 10 Comments »
He came, he saw, he concreted….. The wonderfully-named William the Concreter has done his worst, and the scree bed outlining the extension to our railway carriage house is now covered with a beautiful cement slab. (I think officially the quote refers to Julius Caesar, but couldn’t resist it - sorry… 
Sticky in the [...]
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged 3BT, Barbara Kingsolver, Blogs, earth-and-tree, liiviantalossa, monkeyandsofia, three beautiful things, yarnstorm on May 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m relatively new to Blogging, and am learning a lot from the kind people who have found my site through other websites and blogs and have left comments and directions to other places. Last week I was tagged by Gillie whose Blog at http://www.skybluepink.typepad.com is full of lovely things to cook and make, warmly and [...]
Posted in 1, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged eco-building railway carriage house eco house on May 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, work is certainly underway! From the front garden the house entrance still looks more or less the same, framed in a haze of apple blossom and surrounded by bluebells.
But venture in through the front door, and you soon see daylight up ahead.
The top two train compartments on the left hand side have been carefully [...]
