



My wife 'V' has spent the last year making a mosaic in the form of a section of the floor of a Roman villa and this we have laid in a corner of the inner courtyard.
We finished by building a low broken-down section of wall that defines the entrance to the outer courtyard and forms a barrier to keep the gravel in.
The back wall of the folly is South facing and has the sun on it much of the day. Consequently it is a reall sun trap and we have started the planting with a vine by the arch and a climbing rose by the entrance to the tower.
With the building finished I shall be getting back to the metal bashing!

Now we need to tidy things up and lay the paving in the courtyard ready for the planting for which the folly will act as a focal point.

The cuirass for this armour

I am just about to start on the next armour project which will be a re-working of an older armour I made some years ago. Some of the original pieces, such as the cuirass and tassets, will be retained but much of the rest will be re-made. This is the armour before renovation and I'll be posting progress images as usual in a separate section on the site.