Again we seem to have been too busy doing things at La Cote and elsewhere to keep up to date with recording progress on various mini-projects on this blog. Anne has recently finished her 375km bike ride with our friend Ruth, from Ouistreham ferry terminal in Normandy to the house here at La Cote. We were very lucky with the weather, and I was even luckier as I was driving the support van and arranging the logistics (camp sites etc) en route.
Now we've got that out of the way, we can get down to other things back home...
You can see from the pictures here, the wall to the right of the well which we are trying dig out, get a vertical face and then work out how best to rebuild it. I am looking on this as a training project, hopefully building on the experience gained from working on rebuilding the walls of the ancien lavoir in the village of Ferriere-Larcon. First we need to grade the stones into piles and let it dry out, then plan to start rebuilding it with suitable lime mortar. Some of the collapsed stones are very substantial, as I discovered yesterday when moving them with help from our friend Mark.
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