On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:44:39 +0100, JennyC wrote:


"Welsh Witch" wrote
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We made a huge greenhouse for £200. A builder was pulling down an arcade
of shops and gave us all the wood. We just had to buy the ridged perspex.
I am hoping to be able to make it share space with my sculpture plans for
the garden

Ah ha - do tell us more. I too have plans in that direction if/when we go to
France......
I'm thinking ferro cement constructions......or maybe welded
pieces.............
jenny
The only "more" I can tell you is here
http://www.walk-wales.org.uk/witchsgardenmarch02.htm
My partner you can see made the greenhouse. Down the righthand side I had
a railway sleeper which with great determination and self denial I moved
myself from the top of the garden/ Then I filled the space with compost to
experiment with growing various veg. through the winter.

Not a successful result...they all grew but not in the quantity...so I
decided to take out the compost and fill it with sand! My daughter is a
help and not a help to the sculpture. She lectures in art and political
history and has lots of instructions for me which include wire/chicken
wire etc to use as a base.
But I had I thought a better idea:-) I wanted to make a couple of
classical god type figures so when Littlewoods was closing down in the
town I asked them how much they wanted for their mannequins. They are
normally very expensive! I had a male and a female... one was £50 and the
other they let me have for £10 as they were hot and bothered with the
moving.
I now propose to wedge them into the sand in the greenhouse to make an
impression line it with plastic and then fill it with cement. "You wont be
able to lift it" everyone's crowing...we'll see!

Not strictly ethical but I want some statues I can't possibly afford at
the moment... to be ethical is not my greatest ambition:-)
Lots of the family are talking about moving to France...ooooh I don't know
about leaving this country I would be terribly afraid of others moving in
and taking it all over and then we couldn't ever come back.
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