Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Keira
New member of the family. Actually we dog-share her with another family. We look after her from Sat - Tues every week. She likes it. We like it.Monday, October 4, 2010
Mellow fruitfulness
Orange and gold leaves, damp earthy smells, purple and silver sunsets, and these transient beauties abound.Sunday, October 3, 2010
drains and mesh
so here are the drains, the floor pad with insulation beneath, and a steel mesh to bind them all.Now covered in concrete we await delivery of the frame, on hold until the planning officer decides to release the building warrant. These people love their petty power. I wonder if he drives a big white car.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Is that it ?
I'm told this is the stage when the space looks the smallest. How can we possibly live in that ?
Friday, August 27, 2010
Digging down to build up
Construction begins August 2010 with trenches going much deeper than expected. The site originally sloped fairly sharply down to the Edderston Burn and was filled and levelled with builders rubbish from the building of our old house next door.
Finding the hard ground meant digging down nearly 2.5 metres towards the rear of the site. Consequently the foundations are so deep that we needed three times as much concrete to fill them.
Lucky I don't care at all about those green issues.
Suddenly September
Yes, yes; no posts for a few months. Not that you were looking...
Anyway, it's now August with its deep green, smoke and wafts of cooler evening air hinting at the season to come. We spent the summer in New Zealand (well.. the winter in Auckland- you know what I mean) and sojourned in Hong Kong on the way home. Extraordinary. Temple Street market. Those in the know will smile.
In NZ I ran some short drama courses for lively and enthusiastic home-schooled students, who always restore my faith in young people.
Back home there is now a large hole filled with concrete where once our garden grew. Dramatic beginnings to our little house project with deeper-than-expected trenches (nearly 2.5 metres at the far end) taking three concrete trucks to fill them even half full.
Photos to follow.
Possibly a separate bog site to record the build process. It's all in flux.
Anyway, it's now August with its deep green, smoke and wafts of cooler evening air hinting at the season to come. We spent the summer in New Zealand (well.. the winter in Auckland- you know what I mean) and sojourned in Hong Kong on the way home. Extraordinary. Temple Street market. Those in the know will smile.
In NZ I ran some short drama courses for lively and enthusiastic home-schooled students, who always restore my faith in young people.
Back home there is now a large hole filled with concrete where once our garden grew. Dramatic beginnings to our little house project with deeper-than-expected trenches (nearly 2.5 metres at the far end) taking three concrete trucks to fill them even half full.
Photos to follow.
Possibly a separate bog site to record the build process. It's all in flux.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Easter 2010
The start of the Easter weekend and the ground is once again blanketed with snow. I had to dig the car out of a small drift yesterday, and we measured 24cm of snow on the drive on Wednesday.
Last night was our live radio performance and recording of Myriad, a comic sci-fi piece performed by an enthusiastic group of young people. CDs and a podcast will follow once I've edited the gigabyte of digital audio information down to something more manageable.
Meetings, coffee and taking stock over the next two weeks of school holiday.
Last night was our live radio performance and recording of Myriad, a comic sci-fi piece performed by an enthusiastic group of young people. CDs and a podcast will follow once I've edited the gigabyte of digital audio information down to something more manageable.
Meetings, coffee and taking stock over the next two weeks of school holiday.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Digest
House plans now lodged with the planning office at Borders Council. The long wait begins.
Went to see Rapture Theatre's rendition of Hamlet on Friday night, set in modern day Glasgow at the infamous Elsinore Corporation. Superbly done despite the potentially cheesy setting. Hamlet was played vulnerable, unpredictable, emotional. The whole production was tight, sparse, pacy. The ghost scene was successfully played for laughs, unlikely as it sounds, and the gravedigger was ironic and self-referencing. A good show, and right on our doorstep at the Eastgate Theatre.
Our rehearsals for Myriad race on, with only two left before the performance. I have a soundtrack to put together before next Monday, consisting mostly of explosions, electronic beeps and clicks, accelerating spaceships and menacing ambiences of one sort or another. What's not to enjoy ?
Macbeth rehearsals have also kicked off quietly with a workshop for some of the principal Weirds. This Thursday is a textual analysis of Act 1 Scene 3 and some playing around with movement and voice.
I'm reading The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas at the moment; part novel, part thought experiment - an interesting mish-mash. A friend lent me The Road by Cormac McCarthy but I might have to wait til the weather's more uplifting before subjecting myself to that
Went food shopping and noticed my momentary discomfort at taking a Sainsbury's reusable shopping bag into Tesco. What's that all about ? Actually Sainsbury's promotional slogan for their reusable shopping bags "Take An Old Bag Shopping" almost deserves switching, but the prices don't.
Went to see Rapture Theatre's rendition of Hamlet on Friday night, set in modern day Glasgow at the infamous Elsinore Corporation. Superbly done despite the potentially cheesy setting. Hamlet was played vulnerable, unpredictable, emotional. The whole production was tight, sparse, pacy. The ghost scene was successfully played for laughs, unlikely as it sounds, and the gravedigger was ironic and self-referencing. A good show, and right on our doorstep at the Eastgate Theatre.
Our rehearsals for Myriad race on, with only two left before the performance. I have a soundtrack to put together before next Monday, consisting mostly of explosions, electronic beeps and clicks, accelerating spaceships and menacing ambiences of one sort or another. What's not to enjoy ?
Macbeth rehearsals have also kicked off quietly with a workshop for some of the principal Weirds. This Thursday is a textual analysis of Act 1 Scene 3 and some playing around with movement and voice.
I'm reading The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas at the moment; part novel, part thought experiment - an interesting mish-mash. A friend lent me The Road by Cormac McCarthy but I might have to wait til the weather's more uplifting before subjecting myself to that
Went food shopping and noticed my momentary discomfort at taking a Sainsbury's reusable shopping bag into Tesco. What's that all about ? Actually Sainsbury's promotional slogan for their reusable shopping bags "Take An Old Bag Shopping" almost deserves switching, but the prices don't.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Street View
Peebles is now on Google Earth Street View !
Have you noticed that wherever Google goes, it's summer ?
Anyway, it's worth a look at our pretty summer town.
Have you noticed that wherever Google goes, it's summer ?
Anyway, it's worth a look at our pretty summer town.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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