An easy start turns into heavy lifting

I picked up Hideaki and Kazuha and drove up Friday evening. The traffic was not too bad, and so we were able to buy some essential materials for the weekend's work, like silica sand, extra trowels and shovels.

We started off the next morning by preparing the wild and overgrown garden for mud mixing. The two volunteers vigourously hacked at the weeds and creepers to create a nice clearing. Thanks to the safety training and precautions no one got cut!



This tranquil start to the weekend was not there to last, as we were interrupted by the arrival of the magnificent Huelsta (http://www.huelsta.jp/)furniture. The lorry was too large to come up to the house, so high quality furniture had to be moved over 150 yards to the house. Of course the truck was only staffed by one tiny guy, so that it was up to US to move it!!



Our reward was the first rest on the comfortable sofa.

PeterA called up from the station, and after fetching him we were able to get going on the mud work. Filled out the remaining panels, and created some more mud bricks. We estimate that we need about 24 to fill the space in the wall, so still a few more to do. The brick with the funny shape is PeterA's work by the way.