We are spending all this week at the Farmhouse at the Rodd Farm, the Trust uses this simple but lovely house as accommodation for its Residency Programme. We have our partners Scott and Alan here to give us major help! We also have Emily here, Amy’s daughter.
This is the week for constructing the outside house, making the tables, preparing the site, building the walls for the interior house, installing the sculpture and print; in fact everything has to come together by Friday.
Our main problem is the building work that is taking place here at the Rodd. A major refurbishment of the old Tithe Barn is going on as well as the installation of a new toilet block. Everything has taken much longer that predicted, as is often the case. Unfortunately our two houses are bisected by the construction a new access path… However everyone is being as helpful as they can.
We have spent two days pegging branches on to the four walls of the outside house. It is now assembled temporarily. Meanwhile while Scott and Alan have made a wonderful table from materials salvaged from the renovation of the old barn. We decided to give the table some weight as a contrast to the fragile nature of the house.
We have been up to the woods twice today to gather more material, having underestimated the length of the ridge pole. It is always restoring to visit the woods, and remember the very beginning of the project.
