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First Visit Feb 10th
The first visit to Boot Up! and Freda the dog came too! Sunny, cold and frosty, the garden looked really beautiful. Everyone had a go at everything……. pruning, digging, planting, exploring We found ice in a bucket, catkins on the hazel trees, flowerpots to make sculptures with, seeds to plant in pots…. so much to […]
Straw Bale Build Design Foundations Exercise Group 1
This time the exercise was to see how tall the structure would be made using the same materials using strong foundations. The lesson was about weight bearing. How tall can you go using the same material balanced equally on top of each other? This one reached the roof of the polytunnel which is 2.8m high. […]
Straw Bale Build Design Foundations Exercise Group 2
Better weather today so we decided to do a lesson in building foundations. The exercise is to create a self supporting structure using only 2 found materials in the garden. Flowerpots and bamboo canes. The lesson learnt was to use the big pots at the bottom to create strong support, adding the smaller. lighter building […]
Yurt thoughts
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
Sat 6th Feb – Aylesbury Buckinghamshire – collecting yurt. The one we are collecting is the same as this…. it is lovely
A frosty start!
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 […]