Welcome to what will hopefully now become our monthly newsletter. Our aim here is to impart some useful information and share news and insights from all the sub-projects that make up Pentiddy. We hope the content will be insightful and informative. We have a huge amount of gratitude for being able to live here and…
Making hay from the burial site with Scythes, rakes, forks and sweat! A whole host of things happened earlier in the season to conspire against us mowing the burial site in the way we have previously with the ride-on mower. Our aim has always been to try and use more sustainable methods to manage the…
So, after a few teething problems (an airlocked panel- slight modification to include air bleed valve, and a pin-leak in one joint) The panels are heating our water! YES! Thought I would share the cost of the system too so people can decide if it’s worth it or not…. Excluding the roof itself (i.e the…
Hello and welcome to the newsletter once again. As always things have been ticking along and lots of things happening here- not least because of our current (and long term….) volunteer Tim, who is young fit and enthusiastic, and has helped move us swiftly through a long list of tasks to the point where we…
Here we are in all our post-build glory! The last of the scaffolding has just come down so in my book that means we’ve finished the house! Time to start a new phase with a new blog. The house build blog will remain accessible via the web site as it may be of use/interest to…
So…….it’s been a long time since we last wrote. We hadn’t realised how much of a toll the house build had taken on us all so it’s felt very necessary to just be here in the house, together as a family which has meant that we have been a little out of touch with the…