Building

Posted on 9th Sep 2026

Posted on 9th Sep 2026

August flew by like a wooden high-speed train. Having wielded our trowels and concrete mixer and completed 90 per cent of the retaining wall work in July, we grabbed our carpentry tools with both hands: set squares, chisels, hammers, chainsaws, circular saws, hand saws, Japanese saws, clamps, an...

Posted on 4th Aug 2026

Our construction activities slowed down somewhat during June and July, as it has been a little bit hot... but we've kept going, undeterred! A number of amazing friends came to spend an active holiday with us this past month in Miramon. Starting with Val, Vincent and Jérémy, whose enthusiasm and go...

Posted on 30th May 2026

In Miramon, we’re used to planting things… but rarely black locust wooden posts 30 cm in diameter and 3 metres long! So last Friday, we really needed the help of two excavator operators, respectively equiped with a 14-tonne and 10-tonne excavator, to drive the 18 posts – which Manon, Renée, Mayuan a...

Posted on 26th May 2026

A brief look back at the upheavals that have taken place over the last two weeks in Miramon. On Monday 11 May, a backhoe loader burst onto our overgrown meadow, where we had placed a few bamboo markers. In a matter of hours, through the frightening magic of the diesel engine, two platforms were c...