After burning some of the granite rock out of the way we start digging. How hard can it be after all? Well up here what you see on top is not what is lurking underneath – more rocks. And it is a building site with a pretty good view too. … Continue reading
Well the stairs were a bit of a mission in of themselves. To start with they had to follow the curve of the rondavel, plus I had the fine idea to make them wider at the bottom than the top. So what yours truly didn’t realise is that making a single laminated plank a) angle … Continue reading
Next the pine floors go down, the windows, doors, and passages are framed in seligna (i.e. eucalyptus or ‘gum trees’). Interior brick walls are plastered with Rhinoset and some interior paint colors tried out. You folks in Visp, Switzerland, will know where the idea for the floor to ceiling windows (well almost if you … Continue reading
In August 2014 we were high enough to start the roofing activities, build scaffolding, and invent new roofing – cromadek industrial roofing sheet steel cut into a fish scale pattern. So that it eventually looks like this…….
Our next new building project has started at Hornbydale. I won’t give the game away yet but will make posts under rondavel extension. Digging the foundation trenches has mainly been about burning our way through a large number of boulders over the last two months. Here’s how it works… First, collect a vast … Continue reading
On safari at Hornbydale we see the ‘big 5’ learning the ropes of survival in the bush. Petra is clearly an exponent of tough love with her young ones…and here we see Hydrogen being put through her paces Quimby thinks he can help out in the mother – daughter discussion … … then wises up … Continue reading
Eastern Highlander 