Building in Croatia

I was delighted to see this photo of a drystone building sent by my friend Boris Cok.  This structure is in Croatia and is a corbelled building very similar to the Trulli found in the South of Italy.

Sometimes the coffee shop calls.

Jubilee Cairn

This delightful painting was a Christmas present from my Daughter .It shows the Cairn which William Crooks Cassidy and I built at Balmoral to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

A Happy New Year

Double Copes

Last year with a training group I used double copes for the first time .On the site there were no animals and the owners were planning to raise the wall in the future. It worked very well and I was pleased to try something new after so many years following the standard system.

A Most Unusual Cairn

During one of the great festivals of stone in Canada . The younger folk there had fun building with butter nut squashes while the rest of us were using rocks. Several members of the Landman family participated in the construction of this Cairn, which turned out to be one of the highlights of the weekend.

Amazing Photo.

This was posted by Peter Adams Monsanto in Portugal. It looks unreal but if true it is fantastic.

A Great Idea

This climbing structure was set up in our local park last summer. The children have had great pleasure from going up and down these cast rocks. The surface below is quite spongy so takes any falls without danger. It seems to me that real rocks could be used in this way , the cost would probably be much less. The height is about 2 meters and does require foot holds.

Lovely Work.

Expert Canadian Waller Reid Snow built this wall along with the paved pathway.

Restored Tower Base in Sharjah

This photo of a restored Tower Base was taken by archaeologist Michele Ziolkowski when visiting Sharjah Emirate. The building was at the Wadi il-Hilu and dates from the Umm an-Nar period. ( Bronze Age 2600- 2000 BC. )