Winter blues and spring whites

Two Rooms

In early 2006, along came Troy, Erin, Meagan and Drew in, wwoofers with plenty of enthusiasm and technical knowledge. We took off the collapsed roof, raised the walls, change the roof pitch and put on a new roof. All in the space of a few weeks. Later that year Erica, Clay and Melanie added their energy to the project and we completed the rendering of the first building.


The very same autumn/winter period, we added a new room beside this one, helped substantially by running a course for women eco-builders. I then wrote about this experience in 'The Olive Press, between March and May 2007, in articles called 'Women with Trowels'

First Steps

In September 2005 I finished clearing the inside of the little brick building which I guess was added about 30 years ago to the ruin. The roof had collapsed, the walls were single skin brick and cement and the floor was earth and yesso plaster. A friend helped me to put down a lime and sand floor which took a long time to harden as there was plenty of damp weather and no roof.