
We’re walking in the snow
So, the “Beast from the East” has struck. The supermarket shelves are fast emptying – even the wine shelves have worryingly large gaps! Groundworks go on hold, but we are not concerned. The cabins are ordered, and the first delivery of the two one-bedrooms cabins...

Digging ditches
Until the cabins arrive later in March, most weekends have been spent prepping the site. This has included clearing remnants of the time we kept a dairy herd, digging trenches, laying drainage, creating the new entrance to the field and laying hardcore for the track...

Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone – just a couple of photos to share (both tenuously linked to log cabins…a yule log and two of the dogs posed in front of a Christmas tree (plastic pine). Wishing everyone a Happy 2018! For us, 2018 will be a year of building the cabins. We...

How to build a log cabin – a novice’s guide
A few friends have asked how we got through the planning process, how long it took and what compromises we had to make, so I thought I would blog about it. Top tip - If I give one piece of advice regarding the planning, it is don’t panic, don’t stress…take it as it...

Day one of a new venture to build four log cabins
Today is the first day of Buckland Farm Log Cabins. We’ve successfully got our planning permission and so now all the hard work begins. Our ambition is to create four log cabins on the former dairy farm. We want to share this wonderful setting, deep in the Somerset...