Year: 2022

dry creek bed. that’s what we’re building. clear as mud? ok, let me explain. the idea of a dry creek bed is that it is generally dry, as whatever water may collect in it runs off, down the river (bed). and if there is no water getting into it, it’s just looking pretty, like a…

it has been a while since we’ve flown the drone. there wasn’t really all that much to look at from above. however, the building is making really good and above all visible progress now, but we’ve found that capturing this can be a challenge from ground level. did you notice that quite a few photos…

seriously, if people are still looking for an answer to that question the world is in a lot of trouble than we realise. in our view that is at least part of the issue: waiting for others to do something before we get our own act together may seem like a rational course of action…

i guess we are. the house feels a bit like a colouring-in book: there are all these lines and now what we have to do is fill in the bits. how hard can it be? and how long can it take? i guess the correct answers are: ‘not too hard but probably harder than it…

this, we are told, is when things really accelerate. from nothing (ie a rather complicated concrete slab) suddenly the outline of a house appears, the skeleton of a roof emerges, and it feels like one could move in the following week. we have been warmed that progress will slow considerably at this point, and the…