Delightful Present

This model house was built by folk in our town. It was a 90th birthday present to a lady who had lived in the original almost all of her life.

The Black House was built several years ago in Canada, on the Landman farm during a  Dry Stone Festival. At the time the main plant was Sedum. Now several species are doing well and these Kids seem to be having a great time.

This Blog Lives Again!

I'm delighted to say that I have solved my problems with the computer and have managed to revive this blog.  I still have my facebook blog:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dry-Stone-Walling/123106337757519?fref=ts

which I update around every second day.

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.