@newstephie @webhat i mean, and also when you build a shed, not a house or apartment, when it has no insulation, no plumbing, no electricity, no heating or cooling ...
you can build sheds fast. you cannot get them approved for living in. and even if you could, then you'd have other housing advocates calling them inhumanely small
@beka_valentine @newstephie @webhat you mean, like my house. It isn't legal to live in, it's too small, it doesn't have any service connections, it's half a mile from the nearest road, it doesn't legally exist at all.
But I live in it, I've lived in it now for thirteen years, and I can afford to. Oh, and it cost £7,000 to build, because that was all the money I had; and it was sixteen days from starting the build to me moving in.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2013-04-14-the-winter-palace-as-philosophical-object/
@oliphaunt ah, you mean #StormArwen? Yes, that was as close to suicide as I've ever been. And I'm going to say: I'm still not fully recovered from that. Nine tenths of my wood is still too full of fallen timber to walk through, and I'm close to the point where I'm not going to be able to extract any more usable timber, both because it's too hard and too dangerous to get out and because it's inevitably starting to rot.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2021-11-27-the-storm/
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I did not expect the storm of the night of Friday 26th November to be exceptionally severe. I was aware that there was going to be a storm, and aware that the wind was expected to peak at a strength which rates as 'violent storm' on the Beaufort Scale. But such events are not actually that rare here. I made some preparations — I did close the cattle shed doors, for example, and fully fastened down the last new panel on the north side of the roof.
@oliphaunt
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So there's little chance of the wood again being an enjoyable space in my lifetime. I can't even get into it to replant. However, there is already some natural regeneration, a lot of it of alder, which feels positive.
In the meantime I've bought myself a sawmill and produced a great deal of usable timber. I'm using that timber to build homes for the people I will pass the croft on to, and the first of those is well advanced.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/W1HYf9LhCSUTHpg97
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What a wonderful archive and such a beautiful space you have created!
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