Well, I’ve got the main timbers up, in a fairly round shape. There’s plenty of ivy and creepers of various kinds, so I’ve managed to make enough reasonable substitutes for rope to hold it all together. I’m hoping once I’ve threaded smaller poles between the main uprights, the tension will help to hold it all together, and make the whole thing more rigid.

It’s good to be doing something physical, and constructive. Trouble is I have to keep breaking off to check my traps, because I haven’t got any way of keeping food fresh. I suppose once I get the house finished, and a fire burning all the time, I can try smoking meat. I’ll need to find some way of storing material – particularly for the winter.

It would be good to get some salt too – if I were near the sea, I’d boil salt water, but there’s no sign of a coast from the top of the biggest hill around – but if I am somewhere near Norwich then I’d guess the sea must be twenty or thirty miles away. Once I get myself established here, then maybe an expedition will be in order. The compass in my wristpad is still working, even if the sat nav isn’t, so I’m confident I should be able to find my way back, despite the visibility problems caused by the trees and the dense undergrowth.

Anyway, all that’s for the future. Let's get the roundhouse finished first.