Now that the swallows are here it is time to start adding the cob to the walls of our roundhouse so Stuart is today working with groups of children from Goodrich Primary School in East Dulwich to do just that. There's nothing to beat getting stuck in to clay and mud and daubing it onto the woven hazel walls....plenty of pairs of sticky hands to wash! At the present rate we should see at least one wall panel a week being completed on the outside and maybe we'll get faster as we get better at it? The weather is lovely today...warm and still and the rooks are cawing like mad high in their nests in the pine tree. A perfect Nethercott day.
On 30th May at 2pm we are holding another of our Open Days with a Fun Team Triathlon event (teams of 6 competing in a succession of challenging rounds involving a greasy pole amongst other things!) so if you can make it here get your family along and show them the place where you spent a week on a farm. Perhaps your school staff will make up a triathlon team for a bit of fun? The more the merrier! There will be good food, drink, stalls and games in the idyllic setting that is Nethercott House and we hope to see you there!