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work day…


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 […]

Smoulder


No smoke without fire……

Jolly Poly


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


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


Looks like a peruvian corrugated tin toilet block but you get the gist…. Nice to see it in 3D

Self Build – Lego style


Thought we would try a lego model of the self build shelter – hmmmm

Plotting and Planning


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


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!

Is it spring?


Minus -5 deg, ice in the bucket and frost on the ground. But the fruit trees are budding. A sure sense of hope. How wonderful nature is.

Seedlings


The herb seeds planted before Christmas have sprouted and need pricking out already. Parlsey, Thyme and Rosemary. Basil was the least successful. They must be tough to have survived the freezing temperatures over the last few weeks. It was minus -10 degrees down in the valley one night last week. Unheard of in Cornwall!

Plans!


January 22nd The plans for the straw bale shelter arrived today This is so exciting

Weird weather


It seems bizare to think that only a week ago there was snow, and now we have emerging bulbs in the garden! I guess thats what you expect from a Cornish season, weird weather!! Today I planned out some of the photographs I plan to make some information and education boards with, will keep you […]