I feel as though today (Wed 5 March) is the first complete day’s work I’ve done for a while, not broken by phonecalls and admin. Yesterday I had the long bottom shelf in position, propped on random pieces of wood, and by this evening I had it cut and trimmed to fit, notched to accommodateContinue reading “Wolves and mouflon”
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Cathole
We’ve built as close to a passive house as we could get, super insulated and airtight, but we have a cat. Put in a cat flap and bang goes your airtightness. Our solution has been to put a litter tray in the plant room but, now the room has doors, the cat needs access –Continue reading “Cathole”
New glasses, some driftwood
Time to fix that piece of sea-smoothed gorse wood and a hook for the shopping list onto the larder door. The door is an insubstantial affair, skinned with thin hardboard on softwood edges. Fixings away from the edges need reinforcement, in this case ply patches. In the magic room the new shelf and cupboard unit needed itsContinue reading “New glasses, some driftwood”
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