We've had some very cool and hardy glampers come stay in our yurt since February. So hardy our very first guests arrived in the snow. They assured us their wood-burning stove kept them warm and toasty as they looked out their windows onto a lakeside Narnia. Other guests experienced howling storms, nails were bitten before they relaxed and felt comfortably at rest that their yurt wasn't going to blow away, with them inside it. It actually made the whole experience for them th

Lime rendering the external walls is now complete. Coat after coat has been applied by hand, initially massaged into the straw and then layers added to create a uniform finished surface.The final coat has been applied after 6 weeks of hard work and about 20 tonnes of lime and sand! The building remains 'wrapped' - initially to protect the straw from the rain, but now to protect the lime from the sun - who would have thought! Thank you lime expert Stuart Ogier who has lead thi

Well, we're getting there. We've been building throughout a pretty harsh Winter and although at time of writing it is yet another cold morning, the sun is shining and the birds are in full song...one is cautiously optimistic that the sub-zero temperatures are behind us. Despite the erratic weather Spring has arrived for sure as we are tripping over frogs and the lakeshore ditches are full of frog spawn. Snowdrops are up, we have spotted Whooper swans, Canada geese and Mallard