Welcome to our Wild Corner blog ‘One handful at a time’…

Why have we chosen this name? Well, it’s kind of like ‘how do you eat an elephant’; only it’s handfuls (of mud and cob) not mouthfuls.

When Richard and I decided to build the dream home, neither of us imagined what it would take. Not the money side of things, you can budget and seek quotes, and guesstimate that. But the personal investment. Neither of us could possibly have ‘guesstimated’ how much energy and resilience we would need to get through this.

The decision making is overwhelming. The planning is exhausting. The visualising is challenging at best and impossible at worst.

So, to stay sane, and keep ourselves going as we head on into what seems an interminable journey, we focus on just the next thing, then the next thing, then the next thing…

And when you are talking about a straw bale house, that means we are literally building one handful at a time.

We’ll try to update with regular blogs so that you can come on our journey. But please forgive us if it is a long time between posts. It’s probably because the weather is fine and we are out on site, building, building, building…