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Travel Blogs from Aigurande, France
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To build a cabin, part 5
This is a top pick! As you can see from this entry, we're not builders, architects or experienced in anything relevant. Lots of making it up as we go along. This is not an instruction manual! Part 5 Roof raising!!! Peter, Julie, Laura and I took the dogs to the woods to ...
To build a cabin, part 6
This is a top pick! The sixth installment recording our effort to build a wooden roundhouse with reciprocal frame roof. With no prior experience in this sort of thing, this is what we've been doing and probably not how it should be done! This entry is a couple of days ...
To build a cabin, part 3
This is a top pick! ... And away from the heavy detail of our guesswork and to the MICE in the caravan. Peter and Julie, our friends here in France, owners of the woodland and commissioners of the roundhouse, were at the caravan today. Looking for dogfood, Julie opened the oven ...
To build a cabin, part 4
This is a top pick! This is our description of what we're trying. Of course, it may not work... Part 4 Work has slowed down as Laura and I took it in turns to experience a touch of gastric flu. It's going around La Creuse but we're not sure where I ...
To build a cabin, part 2
This is a top pick! To build a cabin, part 2 Between stints in the woods, we come back to the farm to get clean and refill water and food supplies. A gathering of folks for Halloween on Monday night gave me an excuse to test my pumpkin carving skills which were then ...
To build a cabin, part 7
This is a top pick! We've never done this before, so I've written about what we tried to do, the things that went wrong and what we ended up doing. I hope that someone finds this useful but don't use it as an instruction manual! Check out Tony Wrench's book "Building a low ...
To build a cabin, part 8
This is a top pick! Yup we're still totally unqualified for this, so don't follow this as a guide on how to build one of these. We'll have made some massive errors in it's building! A couple more days spent in the woods during February and March. We completed as much as ...
To build a cabin, part 1
This is a top pick! ... takes either as long as it takes or as long as we can tough it out in winter living in the woods in the centre of France. This week has been beautiful weather for the end of October with just a splash of rain and temperatures balmy. We've ...
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