Fleshing out the north wall

Hopefully the last time you'll see the circle window through that bit of frame

Today we got our hands back into the mud, building the first new bit of Light Earth wall since August.  It was a relief after a few days messing around with carpentry at a snail's pace to get the mud clothes back on.  

We were out of the habit of making the mud slurry and mixing it into the huge barrow load of straw, so the first batch took ages.  Then ten seconds later, whomp, the huge wall cavity had eaten it all up.  I had kind of forgotten how very thick these walls are.  No wonder it's taken over a year to build them.

Nice fat comforting walls 

Tomorrow we fit the big north window - hopefully without breaking it this time.  We picked up the replacement glass today.  And we will build some more walls.  My foolish optimistic hope is to fit the big window and get all the north wall sections filled up to the height of the window seat by the time we stop to cook dinner for some neighbours tomorrow.

Dodgy formwork!  Ah how I've missed it.

Curvaceous