I guess we were trying to make a political point. Something along the lines of ‘this festival really has no meaning for us and we’re only going along with it because everyone else is’. Continue reading Xmas is coming…
During the autumn after the construction of the Cruck Barn in Ulverston a small team of us set to work fitting out the top two floors of the ‘square side’ of the Mill. Continue reading Doing Up The Mill – Again (& other work)
People In Common would utilise much of this new information to take control of it’s next funeral following the death of member Malcolm Cockcroft in the late 1990’s Continue reading Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding Part 2
The day of the frame raising was the point where construction and performance intersected. In a one-off never-to-be-repeated event … Continue reading BARN 2
The decision to build a replacement workshop using medieval building techniques, with a largely volunteer labour force, was arrived at by a sort of osmosis of ideas… Continue reading BARN 1
HOUSE was an ambitious attempt to apply the artist-led-community-engaged ethos of WSI to a construction project… Continue reading HOUSE
I was looking for some way to contribute something back to the Communes Network in a way that was more than just ‘living it’. I saw what we were doing as a viable way to live and wanted to encourage more people to give it a try Continue reading Digging & Dreaming
We had always known (Worried?) that when we finally moved to the Mill the nature of the group would change. Maybe subtley, maybe in fundamental ways… Continue reading All That Way for This
No-one wants to think about planning a funeral. Most of us are fearful, vulnerable and unprepared because we organise a funeral so infrequently. A painful & confusing task…. Continue reading Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding
However interesting the actual carpentry work was I started to become frustrated with the almost inevitable ‘William Morris’ conundrum. That the sort of people who could afford what we were making were not really the sort of people I wanted to work for. Continue reading Architecture and Anarchy
