Ex-straw-dinary

Last night on the way home from work we drove out to the house site and in the failing light of the day (mostly lit by headlights) discovered a delivery of STRAW! That’s right, our walls have arrived and we could barely contain our excitement. In fact, I was so thrilled I sent blurry and underexposed photos of straw bales in text messages to my mum and my sisters – I figured they’d know what it was even if you couldn’t really tell from the photo.

Today the builders say the will start baling “very soon” and maybe I’ll even have a go myself. The next few weekends would be a good time if you’d like to come up and see construction in progress. Everyone is welcome.

You can see the final roof construction now too: