Week forty one
At last the sun’s back! it’s been a week of overcast and rainy weather which really started to get us down – and it also meant we were having to …
Week forty
This week the first thing we did is put “petropoly” onto all the roofing nails as we’ve been having quite a bit of leaking going on when it rains heavily. …
Week thirty eight
This was another quiet week – our third consecutive week at the land, which is the longest we’ve stayed here so far. There’s not many animals or insects around to …
Week thirty six
After 13 hours of bus ride and five hours of cycling we’re finally settled back at the land again! we had a couple of nice sunny days to relax after …
Week thirty two
I decided to start this week by doing some more finishing touches to the net connection, getting the pipe installed nicely into the house and attaching some permenant cabling and …
Week twenty eight
This week started at the land instead of back in Canela – that’s because in the weekend we took the completed solar panels to the land and have successfully installed …
Week twenty seven
This week started with some good progress on the solar panels – I got all the cells installed into the first panel and wired it up! I started by drilling …
Week twenty six
Back onto the solar panels again now that the antenna is finished, tested and working perfectly! The first step this week was to cut four long pieces of the ply …
Week twenty five
This week I finally finished off the antenna which involved putting about six coats of paint on it to make it look nice and to protect it from corrosion, and …
Week twenty two
At last we got back to the land after more than a month! The first thing we noticed on arrival was that our new access road had been made 🙂 the …