Hrummph

We are now buying a pan mixer as the one on the island is not available for hire to us. No comment.

We are getting a 3/4 cube machine which will fit to the Ford 7710 on Tarbert Farm. It will mix the equivalent of 20 hand mixes in one go so we should get on pretty quickly once it arrives in three weeks time. It also means we can compress the time allocated for concreting footings and floors. We are going shares in our mixer with our good friends Andy and Jane who are also on the self build route. They have a beautiful plot which involves rebuilding Balmore - an old ruin - and they will be able to see the sea on both sides on the island,so it is quite exposed. As they are also using passive solar gain and having solid concrete floors, they'll need big batches too.