More steps have been brightened with mosaics.
Mais passos foram iluminados com mosaicos.
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
Progress on the Steps
Bottled Tomatoes / Tomates Engarrafados
We been eating all the veg from the garden – cooking for up to 15 people some nights.
Fomos comer todos os legumes da horta – cozinhar para até 15 pessoas em algumas noites.
Today, Serena and Pandora (yes, more wwoofers!) are bottling a huge basket of tomatoes that I picked from the garden.
Hoje, Serena e [...]
Kitchen Floor Finished
We finally have the kitchen floor tiled and grouted, thanks to helen and Paul who did the last of it for us.
Finalmente temos o chão da cozinha de azulejos, graças a Helena e Paulo, que fez o último para nós.
And It Was all Yellow!
Helen and Paul have been limewashing one of the upstairs rooms – with yellow pigment.
Helen e Paul foram pintar um dos quartos no andar de cima – com cal e pigmento amarelo.
Mosaic Steps
Paul and Ella and Alice have been mosaic-ing the risers on the steps beside the house, each one different.
Paul e Ella e Alice foram criando mosiacs nos tirantes na escadaria ao lado da casa, cada um diferente.
I think they will look amazing when all the risers are all done.
Eu acho que eles vão olhar [...]
New Chicken Pen
Last week we built a new cage, where small chicks will be safe from foxes.
Na semana passada nós construímos uma nova gaiola, onde os pintos pequenos estarão a salvo de raposas.
The fence is cemented into the ground so foxes cannot dig under it.
A cerca é cimentada no chão para que as raposas não podem [...]
We’ve Made Our Bed – Let’s Lie In It (It’s Comfrey)
Once upon a time there were three wwoofers and a host who wanted more than anything in the world to have a new bed to grow big and strong comfrey plants. So they set out one cloudy Monday morning, with their forks and spades, down the garden path, past the pond and into the realms [...]
I’m a wwoofer get me out of here
It’s hot. It’s sweaty. There are flies. We have to work had to earn our bread. Andy rants. We cry for mercy. There is a cage for naughty wwoofers and bramble bushes for the ultimate scratchy punishment. There is horse shit to shovel and hills to climb and beasts to ride. And we get made [...]
Horse Manure and Vine Posts
We’ve been pushing wheelbarrows of horse manure up the hill, to fill the raised beds, during the cool mornings.
Fomos empurrando carros de estrume de cavalo até a colina, para preencher a camas do jardim, durante a manhã fria.
And banging some posts into the ground for the vines.
E batendo em alguns postes dentro o terreno para [...]
