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14.01.2022 Sunken deck paved and ready for grouting. Open fire, some steppers and mosses to be planted in front of the bamboo screens and this little coastal courtyard will be ready for summer . . .... Paving by @stonesociety_ . Plants from @greatoceanroadnursery . Stone supplied by @rmstraders See more

11.01.2022 Stonemasonry, like growing rice, is inextricably linked to nature. Stone by its very definition is the concentration of hard mineral matter, formed over millions of years. To work with finite material older than human life itself demands contemplation. It is a privilege in an era of disposability to connect with and build from a source that is much larger than any individual. Read more at: www.stonesociety.com.au/blog/one-straw-revolution

08.01.2022 Competition. ‘A situation in which people or organisations compete with each other for something that not everyone can have’. It’s a stiff word. Singular. There are many aspects of life where competition is necessary. I think it’s a vital part of our development as people, personally and societally. It teaches the importance of losing the thing, not the lesson. It builds resilience if you don’t succeed, confidence if you do. In business (and here I want to make a note to dis...associate the act of building to the operations of business’, I think that although they’re peas from the same plant, they’re of different pods) there is indeed stiff competition. For however many people are contacted to quote a job, only one person, company, co-op, collective ad-infinitum wins the tender. The rest lose. I think that there’s a lesson in there that can sometimes get lost in the ‘business’ of the whole thing. The word competition takes Latin roots in ‘competitio’, which translates to rivalry. In stonemasonry, and building, as I’ve written about previously on this blog, things just can’t be built singularly. The mason can’t lay a wall without the quarrymen. The carpenter without the faller, the baker without the miller. The person without the earth. We are very lucky to have many skilled people across the multitude of trades that make up the fabric of society, bringing meaning and purpose to literally billions of lives around the world. What need do we have for rivalry? Appreciate the work of your competitors, let it feed your creativity, not your insecurities. Connection, not competition. Read more at stonesociety.com.au. Link in bio. See more

02.01.2022 Let’s talk about bluestone. It’s a term thrown around pretty widely in stonemasonry, especially here in Victoria, Australia. Rightly so. Bluestone isn’t stone, per say. Its use in masonry nomenclature is as a cultural term to encompass dolerites (Tasmania) and basalts (Victoria). So, let’s talk about basalt. Victoria is home to the third largest volcanic plain in the entire world, the Newer Volcanic Province, or the Western Victorian Volcanic Plains. It roughly runs from Cr...aigieburn in the east, to Portland in the west, and from Colac in the south, across to its northern edges at Clunes. The area makes up about 10% of the state’s land area and encompasses some 2.3million hectares. The plains began to form around 6 million years ago when Victoria was home to more than 400 active volcanoes. Consider that basalts are the result of molten lava and magma cooling more or less at the surface of the earth.. It is thought that the plains remained active as recently as 7000 years ago, and some geologists suppose that the plains may not actually be inactive, rather in a dormant state and may become active again soon. Records show that newer volcanoes in the area have erupted every 2000 years or so for the past 40,000 years, and considering there hasn’t been a major eruption for past 5000 years, a significant eruption seems well overdue So why write all of this? Why spend the time compiling information about the formation of stone, its local early uses and volcanos? Because I feel that it’s important to think holistically about with what we build. To appreciate the enormous journey each stone goes through before it finds its place in your building, by the hand of a mason. I think that there’s many interweaving aspects of the craft that makes stonemasonry special, and I hope that you, reading this and the other ramblings you’ll find here, can find something special about a profession that for me, fast became a passion To read the full blog head to stonesociety.com.au (link in bio) is