Bringing it all home…
Another planning permission received last week for a rural-workers' dwelling down in East Devon. Harry Epsom, Ellie Savage and I worked together to justify a dwelling for an enterprise within a steeply sloping valley in a National Landscape. The new enterprise is a genuinely regenerative, stacked farm enterprise comprising woodland-raised pigs, free-range laying hens, grass-fed sheep, coppiced woodland with traditional charcoal production, agroforestry orchard systems, and beekeeping, all operating as an integrated system whole rather than isolated ventures. This new approach proves that ag-dwellings can be achieved on small acreages.
Closer to home, our offices are finally coming together.
No strip lighting, ready-to-wear polyester suits, or Formica desks for us.
Jonathan Scott-Smith went with a campaign desk: the sort Wellington might have used, had he been a slightly hard-up provincial Chartered Surveyor.
I, meanwhile, sourced a desk originally commissioned by the Chairman of General Motors, who reportedly refused delivery on the basis that it was “a bit big”.
On the wall hangs a hand-drawn map of Middle-earth by our very own in-house draughtsman Charles Board. Behind Jonathan sit a couple of original paintings by Christopher Edwards, which I find delightfully unnerving.
Unfortunately, between us we had only nine certificates to hang, which would have looked rather lopsided. So we filled the gap by framing Jonathan’s Stasi rap sheet from that unfortunate East-German holiday incident back in the 80s.
