normal service is resumed

It's been a strange year so far on the mushroom front. In the twenty years I've lived here I have never experienced so few mushrooms - virtually nothing until now. Now they've all come at once, not that I'm complaining.

Chaux chanvre has been completed and drying for over a week now, the floor was supposed to arrive today but although the delivery driver called me and said he would arrive in 2 hours, he didn't. Very frustrating.

With the upstairs almost complete, thoughts are turning to downstairs. We are now thinking that it will provide more room for wool processing, dyeing and running weaving courses. 

Solar panel teething problems seem to be over and the system for instantaneous power transfer when we have a power cut is now working. apart from a few days when the system wasn4t working, we haven't needed to use any grid electricity since installation in late April. We'll see how things continue in the shorter days of winter.