Lost in La Mancha........

Nothing is as it seems......... Getting wood (erectile disfunction aside) should be fairly straight forward, you would think. Well no, really. We have been to a saw mill, with no saw. Timber yards with wood but only 3 meters. Wood we can use and then we cant. Wood thats shit. Wood at 4.00 o'clock that then dispears. Wood, so much talk of wood, but as yet, no wood. This could be seen as a problem, with over a third of the time already gone but thats not how it feels. The complications with the materials have directed us to improvise with what we have got. In some ways we should have been more prepared for this, we came withour own rule set of how we would aproach this project. How we fix things, the materials we use all these preconceptions we brought with us have proved unviable. As a result we are much more in tune with what is going on around us, how do people here get round these problems. We have gone native.

The changes we have made to our design have made the last few days hectic, stressful but very exciting. Not being able to get hold of dimensioned timber has led us to use a kind of local Bamboo. We plan tomake a form of latice construction with the bamboo but to stick to the shape of the original plan, two stories with a possible third. Instead of fixing the platform from underneath we are hanging it with high strength cable. This hopefully makes supporting the structure quicker and easier but also allows for movement between the three trees. Answers on a postcard please.

The location we have for the treehouse is just amazing, will post some picutres soon. It is on part of a cliff ridge and is a sheer drop on both sides of the structure, sketchy as hell and you want to be roped in but its epic. Its been really good satrting to get the first fixes in today and hopefully get the first bit fixed on tomorro, wood permitting. I think we can make up the time we have lost so far and still make something we are happpy with. It does feel quite a responsiblity, a lot of trust and faith has been put in us to make this project work and i jsut hope that we live up to that.

The main thing at the moment is just that this is such a lot of fun. Sure its pretty full on and pretty much full tilt surealism most of the time but we just all feel so lucky and blessed to be here. Tomorro is a big day and we hope to get big things done, hopefully a platfrom of some sort. Bamboo, bongo wood, excited to see what thats like..............
jm