Tim (with help from Catherine) built some shelves in our store room on the weekend. It was a lot of work (you can see a third of it below), partly because local wood is unpredictable in every dimension, green rather than aged and the nails like to bend. But it has made a HUGE difference to the house, especially the kitchen! Nepo and Clementine are pleased with their pigeon holes too.
Note the huge purple bucket – that’s sugar. The 25kg sack next to it is rice. (These are two ingredients we go through at a rate of knots! Four spoons of sugar in a cup of tea is normal here.) The big yellow jerry can is one of our four water storing cans for when the mains water is off; a regular occurrence. We are back in a rainy season so the children love to get muddy outside and sometimes it’s a bit frustrating when I bring them inside to clean them up and despite the rain pouring down outside there is none in the house!
Catherine’s project today was a little shop under the tree house. William has requested a door so at some point it might gain a couple of walls. She was thankful when our lunch visitors helped out in the afternoon to finish it off.
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