This admirable person was my Great G G GGrandfather. He was a very interesting person who first arrived in Australia in the decade of the 1790's. Was he a convict ? To be honest, as a child, I thought he was. To find out please follow the link & be amazed. What a guy !!
William Cox of Windsor & Mudgee/Mulgoa
my latest project is to build a tree house in the Liquid Amber tree just near the deck in the house at Mangawhai New zealand. The idea is to have a space to chill out in the shade of this beautiful tree. Due to many other projects coming up, as they do, the tree house is on hold. But in the meantime I've built a Yurt. Never did get to build the tree house but built a yurt & acquired 7 Mongolian Yurts too. Now back in UK & having a BALL.
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
at the beginning there was a tree
Before coming to nz I thought, wouldn't it be good if I could find a property in nz that had a tall beautiful tree in the garden in which to build my tree house.
When I was a kid one of my favourite pastimes was to build 'humpies' as we called them and also tree houses. Only one tree house was really successful; in a very tall iron bark tree (a type of eucalypt with very hard wood and quite hard bark), set about 10 mtrs above the round, and reached by dad's very long ladder. Trouble was he often needed to use his ladder and would remove it at the drop of a hat, sometimes leaving us stranded up a tree as it were. Anyway, now I have a tree; it's a liquid amber, with branches just right for a tree house. Here is a photo of it looking up to where it's going to be. More later, particularly photos.
When I was a kid one of my favourite pastimes was to build 'humpies' as we called them and also tree houses. Only one tree house was really successful; in a very tall iron bark tree (a type of eucalypt with very hard wood and quite hard bark), set about 10 mtrs above the round, and reached by dad's very long ladder. Trouble was he often needed to use his ladder and would remove it at the drop of a hat, sometimes leaving us stranded up a tree as it were. Anyway, now I have a tree; it's a liquid amber, with branches just right for a tree house. Here is a photo of it looking up to where it's going to be. More later, particularly photos.
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