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Finishing: The Long Long Trailer
October 2, 2020
Kia ora koutou, When engaged to Erin, a few years ago, I sat down with her family to watch one of their favourite films: The Long Long Trailer (1954). My Dad...
Acknowledging: The Long Long Trailer
September 17, 2020
Kia ora koutou, I realised I've stopped taking photos of the caravan. Maybe it's because it's been naturalised to me as my house. It's lost it's newness,...
Furnishing: The long long trailer
July 22, 2020
Life accumulates. Empty surfaces quickly have things placed, then left, then lost on them. Families expand and curtains are made. Despite our constraints -...
Resuming: The long long Trailer
June 15, 2020
Kia ora, A lot has happened since I put the newsletter on hold. Of most relevance for the newsletter is that we have now all but finished the caravan (!)...
Postponing: The Long Long Trailer
March 23, 2020
Kia ora Koutou, I suppose you’ve all heard the news now. As of midnight Wednesday, Aotearoa is going to alert level 4 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A...
Painting: The Long Long Trailer
March 15, 2020
Kia ora koutou, Within the field of interior design there is a diversity of personalities. The names of different colours, for example, include Oriental...
Partitioning: The Long Long Trailer
March 8, 2020
This week we put some walls in. Well, not strictly this week. I'm actually writing the newsletter a week ahead. But ignore the man behind the curtain, and...
Lining: The Long Long Trailer
March 2, 2020
As the work moves closer to the visible “skin” of the caravan, the measurements grow more accurate. The tolerance gets lower and lower. However, we’re also...
Insulating: The Long Long Trailer
February 23, 2020
Our caravan is a 30ft Australian made Millard Starcraft. We have hypothesised that it came over with a circus at some point, before overstaying in the corner...
Designing: The Long Long Trailer
February 17, 2020
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the bathroom should go here. If it does, where do we fit the bed? Well, it can sort of go under the window, here...
Revising: The Long Long Trailer
February 9, 2020
This week's newsletter is not called Designing. That has been postponed, as it became apparent more things needed fixing. Here's a picture of the outside of...
Repairing: The Long Long Trailer
February 2, 2020
I thought I'd start with a quick rundown of the structures on the property. Firstly there is the House. My sister in law and her husband live in the house...
Destroying: The Long Long Trailer
January 26, 2020
Kia ora All, We have arrived in Waimate safely, and spent this week excising the interior of our caravan. This was probably the most straightforward section...
Travelling: The Long Long Trailer
January 18, 2020
We left this morning. The moon went down as we packed our last belongings up. The street was dew fresh and quiet. The zucchini - self sown - had just opened...
Shrinking: The Long Long Trailer
January 11, 2020
I accidentally packed the draft of this newsletter up, and spent a frantic few minutes looking and hoping it wasn't packed too deeply. Two years ago we moved...
Introducing: The Long Long Trailer.
January 4, 2020
Tēnā koutou, A number of people expressed interest in being kept up to date with our progress. Furthermore there are people I want to keep updated with our...