Delight and Edmore as PtdIns 3 & 4
Mr Garikai in full PPE as PtdIns 5
Out of the heat haze
Inactive NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor)
Inactive NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor)
Take your positions directs Mr Ramius
Stone built plasma membrane
The formation of a secretory vesicle
And, finally, the obligatory puppy pic (for Sue)
Hamlet and Brutus
See WengLong, Joachim, and Hilary – I must have been paying attention at some time!
Although these look like walls – they are in fact the foundation walls build on top of the footings i.e. they will be below the level of the final building ground floor.
Here is the idea in progress – the foundation walls now part way up.
Rondavel extension foundation walls in progress
and here, showing a temporary retaining wall in stone immediately behind the builders
Rondavel extension foundation walls in progress
Next some details of the building process when working in stone as we are here.
Farai begins his wall
Of course the stones don’t come in pre-packed sizes…so yes they have to be first burnt, then hammered and finally, artfully positioned so that they fit and the ‘look’ from the outside or inside is ‘good’
Hammering stone to size
Mr Patrick Samhembere in action
Mr Patrick Samhembere in action
Mr Patrick Samhembere in action
The hands that built Hornbydale
The hands that built Hornbydale
After a day the spare cement is scraped away
Mr Perkins Makore – builders assistant
Mr Farai Samhembere – builder
Mr Farai Samhembere – builder
Mr Mabika – builder
Mr Tendai Mushonga – builders assistant
Mr Tendai Samhembere – builder
Mr Tendai Samhembere – builder
Nearly there on the foundation wall
Finished section of foundation wall
Tendai enjoying having his picture taken!
Update:
The completed ‘slab’ on top of the foundation walls
Completed slab on top of foundation walls – looking west
Completed slab on top of foundation walls – looking east
Here are some ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots – so we can see how far we’ve come since 1st April 2014!
At the beginning – a burnt out shell of a building
A burnt out roofless structure
and suddenly ..
The tadpole building
Walls go up and extend the original rondavel
Looks better now
looking south
at sunset now
the original doorway
and now its an interior doorway!
And again from the inside – the original door and window to its left.
that original doorway from the inside
our masonry stove – faced in soap stone
Remember the saga of the stairs:
Mr Willard infront of the eventual stairs
Well we got there in the end!
stairs – unfinished
Finished stairs
Looking down those stairs
And finally the school room up those stairs
Our Montessori school room upstairs in Tadpole
The Scottish play in our school library
Dramatic pictures are emerging of a new space mission apparently targeted at the moon. At the secret high-altitude launch site our cameras have exclusive access to the new rocket system as it is being developed.
Aiming at the moon
Nose cone
Engineering in the Main Cabin
Happy crew on the launch tower
Retractable arm
Portholes to aid navigation in space
Cheese melting thrust
Woke up to a perfect temperature inversion – cloud level just below the house:
Looking across to Worlds View
Tree shadows on clouds
Hornbydale at dawn
Tadpole after plastering the outside
View from the septic tank
Routes were chipped out of the brickwork for the electrical conduits prior to plastering the interior. (No nice cavity walls here)
Routes of electrical conduits
The electricians covered in brick-dust
Brick-dust
Next Mr Patrick 2 ‘plasters’ (with cement) the exterior and interior. Chicken wire was used to add strength to the outside of the existing round rondavel.
Mr Patrick 2 plastering
Mr Tadoka and Mr Paul the plumbers chipped out the shower
Place for the shower
And finally the most important part of any building and the one you have been waiting for … the septic tank.
Here being inspected by ‘Mr Huckle’
‘Mr Huckle’ at the septic tank
Mr Farai plastering the septic tank
The plumbers had to spend a couple of extra days burning a route through the stones for the pipe connecting waste pipe
Burning rocks in the trench
Mr Tendai looking safer than usual!
Mr Tendai in hard hat
Eastern Highlander 