Sunday, 26 September 2010

Roof building time / Tempo para a construção do telhado

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 After many moons of preparation - of walls, lime work, wood research and planning - it arrived, a truck load of eucalyptus wood from near P...
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Monday, 20 September 2010

Stone building, all summer

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Since May it has been stone stone stone on the main house. With João Camula, of Granitos Camula , as our stone mason, wall after wall was ta...
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Sunday, 5 September 2010

A wall of straw and clay / Uma parede de palha e argil

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The Alambique - timber frame and windows (from Jon and Mary in Scotland!). Shuttering below to hold the straw-clay. August. Summer fl...
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Sunday, 1 August 2010

Roof off

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We thought it would be relatively easy to build, or rebuild the house. Easier than building a new one, obviously, ha! The walls are already ...
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Friday, 30 July 2010

How to build stone steps / Como fazer as escadas em pedra

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Driven nuts by uploading pictures one by unbelievably slow one onto this blogging thing, never having the time, etc. has meant I rarely post...
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010

A talk about community at Andanças festival

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Plastering weekend at Miriem's house, Galicia, with our "community" of growers Honoured, I am, to be asked to talk, to giv...
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Friday, 23 July 2010

Making lime putty for building

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Guest post by Paulo (edits where I couldn't resist:) Today a truck full of bags of quicklime arrived at Casa Felix and we began the p...
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