Yesterday our friend sent us some pictures that really cheered us up.No it wasn't puppies and kittens doing cute stuff. It was pictures of her house looking like what it is at the moment, a building site.
So I thought I would post some candid shots of our bathroom to be and our kitchen/dining/living room to be.
To cheer up anyone else who thinks they're the only ones living like that.Having said and done all that it actually looks better in the pictures than in real life so if you're thinking "Oh my god how can they live like that?" I'm sorry but it's worse than you can imagine. But it only bothers us intermittently, certainly not enough for us to really crack on with stuff. You'll notice we missed our deadline on the bathroom walls but tomorrow quite possibly they will be done
.I apologise for the title of this post but it has made Tech Support laugh for the last two years now and he insisted.
It's back on the pills for him tomorrow.
6 comments:
Don't worry Karen, blowing the shots up to full size exposes the real horror. That was us a year ago - now we're just fighting the builders!
a large part of old job was arguing with builders you have my sympathy. I'm glad it looks really horrible (I think) I wouldn't want people to think I was exaggerating
Crumbs, I do admire your bravery...
Chateau La Pants is SUCH a good name :) I might accidentally steal it for my novel...
Despite the pics looking so horrendous, I can imagine how wonderful it will be (eventually!!)
Please don't encourage him Jen but feel free to steal the name. I wasn't sure he hadn't stolen it from some carry on film but he says he's saving Firkham Hall for his next project!
Firkham Hall indeed! That DID make me smile :)
When will the subtle emergency facing the earth and its ability to support human life be visible enough to penetrate human dogma?
An American team of Earthship builders who build the most radical form of sustainable housing available on the planet today went to France to share thirty years of research and development with the people of France in an effort to educate the local people on systems of living that can curb global warming and at the very least make it possible for humanity to survive longer in an uncertain future.
The building is as of this date almost finished and already hundreds of local people in the small town of Ger are visiting the site on a daily basis. School children are coming in groups every week to learn about the sustainable systems. The project has been in the headlines of local news papers four times since it was started in late April, 2007.
The US team, however ,was hauled off to the police station for ten hours and the initiator of the project , Michael Reynolds, was interrogated for fourteen hours and charged with criminal concealment of work. He has been forced to pay $30,000 in taxes to the French Government and has to go to French court on June 5th to face charges and fines and possible jail sentencing. All of this for trying to share methods of sustainable living with another country.
A fisherman sets out snare nets for tuna. The nets are specifically for catching tuna. Sometimes a dolphin is caught in the tuna snare. The fisherman has the sense to determine that even though his nets are for tuna, he has snared a dolphin and rather than clubbing the dolphin with the rest of the tuna and putting it on ice, he lets the dolphin go free for a dolphin is not a tuna. If only the French government could be so wise. It is this simple wisdom that is necessary to give us a chance for a future on this planet.
To help us please send an email to biotecture@earthship.org, which will be compiled and anonomously presented in support of Michael Reynolds and Earthship Biotecture.
For more information please go to:
http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53
thanks!
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