Log cabin to be featured at Grand Designs Live

It’s only 11 days until Grand Designs Live opens its doors, and work is well underway on the five houses that will make up the Grand Designs zero carbon village.

According to the press release, there will be an Eco Pod; a low carbon house from the London Development Agency; a sustainable, ready-to-go ‘GlassPod’”, whatever that is; the House That Kevin Built, which Kevin McCloud is building with his own bare hands; and of most interest to me, a log house using Douglas fir from managed woodland in Suffolk. You can just about see the basics of the log house in the background there. (Hate to think what the big orange thing in the front is, though!)

Excitingly for me, I shall by the time GDL rocks around be the proud owner of my first digital SLR camera, a second-hand Nikon D70. A friend of mine loaned it to Kevin and me for our honeymoon, and I loved it so much that we’ve persuaded him to sell it to us. We have a fast 4GB memory card for it, which means I’ll have room for over 1300 photos!

Unfortunately, my Macbook, after a long illness, has finally slipped into a coma. The screen no longer functions, and whilst we can and will try to fix it, I have ordered a new one as it’s uncertain if/when the old one will be cured. The new Macbook may or may not arrive before the expo, so I may end up tromping round my old iBook instead. If you see me lugging all my equipment around and looking weary, do say hello and give me a good excuse to put it all down for a second or two!

Nevertheless, the excitement’s building (Hah! No pun intended!), and I’m chomping at the bit and raring to go. See you there!