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**tiktaktoe** @tiktaktoe@mastodon.social · 1d *

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tiktaktoe @tiktaktoe@mastodon.social

#Squid at the #Roundhouse tonight.

The whole place was bouncing!

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Apr 21

Apr 21

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

#roundhouse we're sitting here round the stove, drinking tea from water heated on it, looking around and thinking "we did this". It's a good feeling.

Of course the house is not finished, but the rest can be done out of the weather.

A woman sitting on a three legged stool in front of a small wood stove. Behind her, the walls between the pillars are still unrendered straw.

A cast iron pot sits on the stove.

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Apr 20 *

Apr 20 *

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Where we're up to with the #roundhouse.

The walls have yet to be rendered, but it's habitable!

Inside the roundhouse. The floor is clear and swept, and there is a bed made up beside the stove.

Outside the roundhouse. The shaggy turf roof hangs out far over the walls, to protect them from driving rain. The whole house appears to float a little off the ground. There are some trial patches of lime render.

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Apr 18 *

Apr 18 *

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Progress on the #roundhouse over the past 36 hours. We have windows!

Upper stud wall completed, and skinned with membrane on the outside.

Oriented strand board spiled and fitted to protect the membrane. This is not the final cladding – there will be weatherboarding over this.

First window roughly in place. The inside of the house is still littered with left over straw bales.

The front of the house with both windows fitted.

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Apr 16

Apr 16

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

The front of the #roundhouse is really taking shape now!

The front of the roundhouse. The pillar and brace on the right of the picture are newly coated with tung oil, and are glossy. The weather boarding on the left of the doorway is complete, on the right partially done. The decking planks are laid and fastened but not yet trimmed. The door and front windows have yet to be fitted. Inside, the new stove is visible behind a ladder.

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Apr 12 *

Apr 12 *

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

The #roundhouse now has a stove – and a chimney!

The new stove arrives from the forge in the link box of The Little Tractor That Can. The tractor is standing on rough grass by a crooked fence and is lit with strong evening light.

Lucy, for whom we're building the roundhouse, stands by the stove. The walls are still of bare straw, and unused bales still litter the space.

The new stove with its stove pipe installed going straight up through the roof. The stove is matte dark grey; the stove pipe is black.

Lucy sits on the turf roof in the sunlight, by the cowl of the new chimney. Behind her, the hillside is green.

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Apr 9

Apr 9

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Rebuilding the bale wall that was blown out in the winter storms. This time we're tying the bales into sturdy wooden structure. There's still a problem to be solved in achieving a good seal between the bales and the roof.

#roundhouse

**Bob Harvey** @bobharvey@cupoftea.social · Mar 28

Mar 28

Bob Harvey @bobharvey@cupoftea.social

#Geograph Picture of the Day #POTD from #Monmouthshire / #SirFynwy, #Wales 2007
#Kymin #RoundHouse #folly #gazebo
Https://geograph.org.uk/p/4882482
Free to share – please credit John Winder/Geograph

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Mar 26

Mar 26

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

My next job is to try to dig out the water pipe up at the #roundhouse site. We laid in 150 metres of pipe to get water up there, marked where the end of the trench was, ran over the marker with a Land Rover, and now we can't find it.

Bother.

**ashley greb photo** @ashleygrebphoto@mastodon.social · Mar 16

Mar 16

ashley greb photo @ashleygrebphoto@mastodon.social

Konyikeh
Roundhouse, London - 13.Mar.25

#konyikeh #singer #songwriter

**Strum** @strum@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 10

Mar 10

Strum @strum@mastodonapp.uk

25, Church St, Melksham
The Blue Plaque identifies this as The Round House - related to Melksham's wool industry.
Another sign identifies it as Melksham's Community Larder - a food bank.
#photography #Me;ksham #RoundHouse #CommunityLarder #foodbank

Cylindrical building, with a Blue Plaque.

**Dezoito** @Dezoito@pixelfed.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

Dezoito @Dezoito@pixelfed.social

Don't let those watchful "eye" windows deter you from visiting the Casa Payán en Silvia, Colombia. It's a living symbol of the Guambiano (Misak) indigenous cultural resilience. It serves as both a museum for the tourists and a place of meeting and teaching for the indigenous people. Its rounded form echoes the cyclical worldview of the Misak people.

#Guambiano #Misak #Coconuco #Cauca #Colombia #SouthAmerica #indigenous #native #culture #architecture #culturalPreservation #museum #traditionalKnowledge #culturalCentre #roundhouse #education #community #indigenousArt #photography #photo #fotografia #foto #nature #natureza #naturaleza #naturePhotography #pixelfed #travel #landscape #art #arte

#arte

**The Coding Beard :verified:** @thecodingbeard@techtoots.com · Feb 22

Feb 22

The Coding Beard :verified: @thecodingbeard@techtoots.com

Morning! Off to the Toronto Beer festival today. Looking forward to a pint in the snowy outside #roundhouse #steamwhistle #beer #toronto

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**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Jan 25 *

Jan 25 *

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

This was the state of the #roundhouse when we got up there this morning. It looks an awful lot worse than it is. We got all the bales under cover within an hour. The main structure, and the roof, are fine. None of the windows were damaged, no bales were lost. It could have been far worse.

A caravan which a friend lives in was hit by a falling tree and is badly damaged.

The roundhouse after the storm, with bales tumbled out of the walls. Bright sunshine!

The walk between the back door and the south east window survived, indicating that it doesn't take a lot of structure to stabilise the wall.

#StormEowyn

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Jan 21 *

Jan 21 *

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

The last couple of days I've been sawing weather boarding and decking for the #roundhouse. For a lot of that time I have had help, but this afternoon I haven't, so I've been experimenting with new ways of getting logs onto the bed of the mill with only the help of The Little Tractor That Can.

A pile of waney edged weatherboarding and square cut decking beside the sawmill bed.

The sawmill shed, seen from the loading side, with fresh cut boards stacked behind it.

The Little Tractor That Can parked beside the sawmill shed with its box on. If I can get the front end of a big log onto the bed of the mill, I can get the box under the back end, lift, and reverse very carefully to push the log further on.

Continued thread

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Dec 4, 2024 *

Dec 4, 2024 *

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

#roundhouse We managed to get a few more hours in this afternoon, and that's the stud wall sheeted with oriented strand board. It will get waney edged weatherboarding over this, but that's for another day.

Strand board under both windows, semi-permeable membrane over the panel to the left of the door.

Lucy stands in the door way of her new home. The front wall is very unfinished and the rest of the walls lack render, but it's now a building with a proper perimeter and a real inside and outside.

Continued thread

**Simon Brooke** @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Dec 3, 2024

Dec 3, 2024

Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

The framing of the stud wall got finished by torchlight this evening. Today was the last day we could do serious work on the structure until the New Year, because Lucy has important matters to attend to elsewhere. So we'll now just sheet this over for protection from the weather, for now. #roundhouse