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Oradour Sur Vayres, Limousin B&B

Nights are £45 per night for bed and breakfast with lunch and tea available based two sharing or £55 if one person only.

Food is available with a set menu but we do accomodate vegans and vegetarians as well as meat eaters.

The property is our home and we try our best to make your stay a welcome one. You can participate feeding the animals or go for peaceful walks

An area of outstanding Natural beauty
Limousin is an area of unspoilt rolling countryside and traditional agriculture especially cow farmers. There are seven villages holding the title of ‘Plus Beaux Villages de France’. Here in Limousin there are only 42 inhabitants for every square kilometre, which is a very low population compared to the rest of France.

The region’s has gained popularity with tourists and second homeowners. The deep forests and tranquil lakes are enough for visitors to enjoy their stay

Easy access
The easiest way to the Limousin region from the UK is to fly into Limoges. Although their is a fast and efficient high speed TGV train service will take you here from Paris.

Travelling through

We are happy to accept people who are travelling on their own or a group for camping on our fields. We have toilet facilities and food on offer.

Bikers are welcome and can offer basic workshop facilities or battery charging.

Workshop holidays in France

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ECO living work shop holidays. Eco Power the principles and implementation Here you can learn about the mechanics behind most systems and DIY generators. This workshop will give you the knowledge to build your own wind turbine and simple technology to implement into your home or supplement power needs. Once you have the basics you will be able to evolve your own systems and maybe become totally off grid. Craft based workshop holidays We are running a range of craft workshop holidays. Each workshop would involve the principles and the history behind such crafts in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Scroll Saw for Beginners Pyrography for Beginners Or just want to get away This area of Limousin is a National Park and has many unspoilt views. If you are looking for a quite retreat where you can work on that next best seller or to be Artistic without interuption then we can also accomodate your request. We can supply paints and easels on request if transportation is an issue or you just want to carry hand luggage on the plane. Please advise in advance though. Accomodation Accommodation is a double room in our home which can be two sharing or a couple we will be adding rooms and traditional teepee tents in the near future. We will be offering our home for those who are looking to get away to a quite setting where you can find your self and explore the possibilities of a more ecological existence. Transport from and too the Airport Bellargard can be provided by us or you can arange your own. Only £45 pp per night Cost Each work shop is three days including accomodation breakfast and light lunch. Set Evening meals are available. We do accomodate meat, vegetarians and vegans. Most of our food is organic and grown on site. £395 Week end workshop £295 Week day workshop We are flexible and can usually accomodate your needs. Each workshop is configured to you, and what you would like to get from them. Template three day workshop program Day one 10am Orienteering 11am T break 11-30 Orientering continued 12-30 Lunch 2pm Work shop 3-30pm T break 4pm Workshop 5-30pm Finish Day two 10am Workshop 11am T break 11-30 Workshop 12-30 Lunch 2pm Work shop 3-30pm T break 4pm Workshop 5-30pm Finish Day two 10am Workshop 11am T break 11-30 Workshop 12-30 Lunch 2pm Work shop Discussion 3-30pm T break 4pm Workshop Evaluation 5-30pm Finish Additional nights are £45 per night for bed and breakfast with lunch and tea available. Work shop usage with minor guidance (only available if worshop holiday already completed)£20 per day. It is common that that our workshops are occupied by couples as well as enthusiats and if the other party is not interested in the workshop we can still accomodate at £45 per night.

New addition to our little farm

Little baby 'Ruby' Lamb just had  a bath and blow dry and now all fluffy. We  hope to breed from this little darling to harvest Wool.

Scroll and Pyrography Art Workshops

Scroll and Pyrography Art Workshops

Drinking water to flush poo!!!!

Most home use expensive and unnecessary drinking water to flush the loo when some people don't have clean water to drink

Composting toilet by SEPARETT

Our new toilet which saves a considerable amount of water and can be seen here in it's temporarily position. It is now in the house and bit more civilised.

Everyday millions of gallons of expensively treated potable water is flushed down the toilet in the UK. Ideally we would all use rainwater to flush our toilets however this is not considered a practical option for most people. An alternative is to reduce the amount of water used in each flush.

Modern toilet cisterns use around 7-8 litres of water per flush, with pre-1993 models typically getting through 9-12 litres. This is far more than is actually necessary to flush a toilet fully and so one of the following products can be used to reduce the amount of water used per flush by 1-3 litres.

Composting must be the way to self sufficiency

Our Well is well worth it

Our water is sourced from the ground after much consideration we found our position and started digging well my son did then I joined in and crikey it was hard going. The ground here is very hard with bands of soft stone and hard clay. We dug to around 4 m as the water here is hi and soon we struck water.

Notice the all important beer encouragement

Still a bit further to go

Horoscope pyrogaphy slices of tree

Astrology is an art also if your any good at it here are my pyrography wood burned horoscope items

Aquarius

Aries

Cancer

Capircorn

Gemini

Leo

Libra

Pisces

Sagittarius

Scorpio

Taurus

Virgo

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Now have a new scroll art website

Just registered our new website domain www.scrollart.co.uk

The site is in construction but we hope to add lots of information about our products and information on many aspects of what we do.

Have a look and tell us what you think and any suggestions or thinks you would like to see

What is Pyrography?

The act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame. This technique is used to create line or shaded artistic burnt impressions in wood, paper, or leather.


Examples:

Ebay listings of Pyrography

Home made Pyrography machine

I love my  pyrography but my simple soldering iron type just don't cut it anymore so I need to source some new kit. I have been looking at a few machines such as the Peter Child or any other Nichrome wire type wood burning tool. I have been producing items such as the pic below but would like to expand my wood burning ART.

After much deliberation I have decided the cost of such machines is high considering the simplicity of them. I will be making my own from some very simple items: A dimmer switch a 12 volt transformer and some nichrome wire. You will need to follow this post as I will be adding more info later.

Just had delivered my Nichrome wire so today I will set to make the prototype

More to follow

CROCODILE wooden PUZZLE, Handmade and painted

Ebay Listing for Crocodile

'Hand made and painted Crocodile Puzzle'

Three Piece decorative childrens puzzle item 

Free International Postage, plain packaging

Hand made, designed and painted using acrylics

160mm X 90mm approx  

Ebay to sell crafts

Now its time to make some money from my hobby and it seem to make sense in using Ebay as a selling platform the only negative thing I can see is the cost of listing and selling fee's. My Ebay Page

I would like to construct a new website and sell my items without the need to use fleabay but at the moment it may be a necessary evil. Check out my Flea Bay 

My Home made fret saw Scroll saw

In the pursuit to expand my scrolling to the heights I decided to build a scroll saw using only the motor and switch from my commercial machine. The ability to weld was useful although my welding is poor. The machine is similar to the popular British built and supplied by Hobbies in Dereham Norfolk. The principle is two parallel arms working together to give a positive motion other machines which work on the same basis is the Diamond

Here are some pictures

 Simple Allen machine screws clamp the blade

After some practice I have decided to improve the Blade clamps as it was difficult to change and the blades had a habit of twisting hence not running true. So I set about creating a new clamps after some dreaming I came up with 10mm allen key cut down with a slot for the blade, this can be seen below.

The insert was made from a 10mm socket to prevent the clamp from twisting and a bolt thread added to allow easy tensioning of the blade.

The bottom clamp is similar but without the tensioner.

Example of scrolling made with this saw. Child's Crocodile Puzzle

Fret Scroll Hegner Diamond Record Proxxon