Artist friend's oil of the pond
Young bulls in the 11 acre field - Suppliers of lime plaster basic ingredients, By Appointment.
The abandoned electricity poles set in a circle into concrete foundation
The finger-jointed roof cap
Larch Roof beam/vertical pole join and steel bolt
skeleton - day four
Roof beam structure in process of construction
Temporary Steel spider's web holding vertical poles in position pending roof construction
Closeup of roof support beams
The Nonagon Cap
The skeleton ready for roof planks
Ceiling detail - interior - larch planking. Straw covered walls still to have lime plaster applied
The nonagon larch-planked roof in position, with top still uncapped
The larch-planked exterior filling the gaps between the electricity poles
The lime-plastered interior, and "distillery" cap in position
Newly applied lime plaster
The back wall freshly lime plastered, with Jarrah wood planking seats, cut and planed down from 100 year old railway sleepers
Rear right wall freshly plastered
Autumn dusk by the gazebo
Venison for supper? - view from "Kampala Cathedral"
Pond - late March 2007, afternoon - view from The Refuge
The gazebo with clematis
Gazebo in November sunshine - the willows at 18 months old
Gazebo from the Jarrah wood dock
Early days
Marjoram and mint growing by the gazebo
Clematis in bloom by the gazebo
Lupins in bloom, and the larch turning to silver grey
The Retreat!
Pond reflections before a winter sunset
Winter view of the pond from the gazebo
Time to put the peat fire on in the gazebo...
Shelter from the west winds in winter
