Yesterday we took delivery of the main facility building (loos, showers and basins). Lovely job by Paragon Space (www.paragonspace.co.uk)...

No, not ours, a friends, her name is Lola. I just couldn’t resist putting this lovely picture in. #puppies #labradorpuppies #newventure...

Another huge hole! We always planned a pond and it will also take all of the run off from the drive and all of the roofs of the main...

These guys are building the Hub building (reception, office, classroom, tearoom, workroom) and our House. This is Kris and his working...

...of a Treatment Plant. Biggest hole I’ve ever seen close up. Until this is up and running we have our lovely compost loo. This beast...

At last we have a lovely little facility built and ready to go. It looks so lovely and welcoming at the bottom of the field. Still...

Part 2 A convenient convenience for builders on site and afterward for campers. A lovely little facility. Composting loo from Thunderbox...

Part 1 Initial stages. Well, this is a 55 person treatment plant. Absolutely humongous! It would have been ‘convenient’ for it to have...

With a verandah! Little beauty. Lovingly built and lived in by the previous owner. Again at a secret location for a little spruce up and...

Isn’t she lovely? Collected on Friday and now residing at secret location locally until next spring. Super excited about having our first...

Going to war on the dock in the field. I had no idea how long the roots could be. Keep finding ‘the Mother of all Dock’ roots and then...

Very pleased with our workshop/ garage. This building is two used containers (re-using from the very beginning!) We needed somewhere on...

We always planned a ‘loose’ orchard for Cwtch Cabins of traditional native fruit trees. We have tried to use as many really local species...

Hedge Life Whilst planting 100 babies into our translocated hedge to help it along the way, James found these two lovelies. Great hedge...

Went to The Beefy Boys in Hereford today (one of our favourites, the BEST burgers) and would you believe it, they sell ‘Cwtch’, Welsh...

22nd Feb and the water mains are in! One ‘business’ main at 50mm and one domestic at 25mm. Not entirely without hassle, lots of leaky...

Minimum depth of water main is 750mm. Our stick is marked at 850mm. Sure don’t want installation to fail the rigorous Dwr Cymru...

Been ages planning next stage as we have been learning what’s involved in putting mains water supplies in. Thank you Fergus at Dwr Cymru...

Last load of the day. Same again Monday and we’ll see where we get to. Then quiet week while we re-group and plan for next phase of...

My James, pretending to be a digger driver #newventure #campsite #muchmarcle #driveway #digger #herefordshire #topsoil #moles #molehills...