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Yurt thoughts
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On Saturday I met Jesse Liang. She is originally from Inner Mongolia and her family make yurts for a living. This is Jesse, her boyfriend Elliot and Jesse’s Mum. Her mother makes the canvas and the felt materials and her dad makes the woodwork – the doors, the poles, the trellis, the roof ring. In […]
yurt-tis
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Sat 6th Feb – Aylesbury Buckinghamshire – collecting yurt. The one we are collecting is the same as this…. it is lovely
A frosty start!
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Here are some images from today (Wednesday!) Started off very frosty, crystal like everywhere!!! Hope you like them…oh and a few pictures of f-f-f-f-fences!! Beautiful light towards ‘Christmas tree’ Frosty posts Fences nearly finished Frosty vines Dafodils pushing through, will be beautiful when they bloom! Frosty fences Frosty and icey tall trees The track Beautiful […]
work day…
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Boot up! working party pics….. well done everyone! Last Thursday Boot Up! became friends with some great new volunteers, students and young people. It was a great to see the site littered with people from all walks of life, from everywhere from Bicton College, Plymouth, Falmouth and around Cornwall. Work got underway after tea (of […]
Jolly Poly
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An invention! A tool for cutting damaged plastic from the roof of a polytunnel – pure genius! A stanley knife bonded with polytunnel fixing tape to the end of a hoe……the possibilities are endless.
Winter Wonderland
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Sun 31st Jan What a beautiful thing snow and ice is, each little snowflake or ice crystal individual but seen en masse they create an epherial and magical carpet. Today is just so beautiful.
artistic licence
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Looks like a peruvian corrugated tin toilet block but you get the gist…. Nice to see it in 3D
Plotting and Planning
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So – are we decided about exactly WHERE then? Starting to dig the foundations of the straw bale shelter – It feels so good! It’s really happening!
Straw Bale Build Planning Day
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Tues 26th Jan How fantastic! We have had a real Boot-Up! Day today. We had Ryan join the team. And Jo has come along to supervise the straw bale build. Rory is here too. He is helping out with gathering materials and harvesting wood as well as everything else!