Body of work – 16 years of dry stone walls
Last week my LinkedIn account told me it had been 16 years since I started working as professional building dry stone walls. It got me... Read More
Before and after – transforming gardens with dry stone hard landscaping
This post is about showcasing some of the work Stone Inspired has done over the years. I take a lot of progress pictures and it’s... Read More
The joys of working in winter
I’m often asked what I do in the winter. The answer is I work building dry stone walls. Like I do the rest of the... Read More
2020 – the weird dry stone walling year
A review of my dry stone walling year
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue
I love the movie Airplane – a brilliant spoofing of the 70s disaster films and the creator of a 1000 memes on social media. Lloyd... Read More
The joys of the season
Well, another year is nearly done and everyone is getting ready to down tools, turn-off their computers, file the last of the paperwork, and head... Read More
2017 – here’s what happened – Biggie Small’s dry stone walls
Life is like a box of chocolates – you just never know what you’re going to get. It’s one of the fun aspects of working... Read More
My dry stone year – So was 2016 better than 2015?
2015 ended with a six month-long slog on a big dry stone walling job that was miles from my house. The drudgery of the long... Read More
A hard year of lessons
To be honest, 2015 was a difficult year work-wise. I was definitely spoiled in 2014 with some amazing projects: the Moongate water-feature, the Kirknewton and Dunbar... Read More
Injuries and the pain of working
I’ve not posted one of my rambling collection of thoughts for a while…so… Despite doing a physical job, lugging rocks about the place, hitting rocks with... Read More