Gates to Paradise.

Which is just to say that the site now has a pair of wooden gates at its NW approach, put up by me yesterday. I'm not quite there yet but feel that it may get afloat again in the next few days. I painted the blue box Sherwood green and started to clear a space in the woods for an Earthship. We like the idea of building an Earthship, possibly before anything else as

1. The marterials are free or already on site.
2. Might even be paid to take 500 used tyres away from the National Tyres depot in town - they have to pay £5 a tyre, they say, to have them removed from their premises.
3. It could make a snug sleeping den for site visitors and useful day house, too in its chosen location.
4. A local charity wants to build an Earthship in Eiras Park as a youth centre. They may well be persuaded to come and help with the construction.
5. It'll also give me a reason to fell and plank some/all of the Scot's Pine on site. Thet're good timber but not really appropriate species - all the rest is native deciduous and holly. OK and sweet chestnut and horse chestnut and Christmas Trees but they're "exceptions" to prove my rule. OK, just I really want to harvest those 80 year old pines, and there's a few plankers around to bring their kit to the site to do the work.

So, an Earthship. Should I ask the Planners? No, I didn't think so , either! Trouble is I already want to ask them about

1. Making the renovation twelve inches higher, to get the crogs in comfortably.
2. Wind turbines - either on the top of our hill or just accross the road to that point as a small wind farm or both options.
3. Oh yes and ........ One has so many plans!

The Celtic Longhouse I'd like to be quite early, too. Plans will be drawn up!

I also uncovered the well again (from brambles) so must now devise a pumping scheme to draw the water out and to points of use. Solar or a small turbine?

Back to the future and all that!