Many thanks to all the wonderful volunteers who helped over the last two weekends: Bex, Soren, Tom, Lay, Bruce, Zacc, Christine, Dean, Jo, Waveny, Tembi, Kattia and Annie.
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Stupa Cleaning 10 July 2021
We had a lovely morning cleaning stupas then spent a few hours after lunch planting erosion-preventing native plants on the steep hillsides around the stupas. Many thanks to all who helped.
Painting Stupas March/April 2021
We had several working bees between January – May 2021. Many thanks to all the fabulous volunteers who cleaned, sanded and painted: Melissa, Bex, Abby, Naomi, Chris, Jess and Greg, Bruce, Katia, Dean, Tony the neighbour who kindly helped with plastering and Dave the painter for useful advice and paint. We didn’t quite get it finished and will be painting again in Spring 2021.
A new water tank! November 2020
The old one kept springing leaks, so we now have a beautiful new water tank for cleaning and painting the stupas
Stupa Cleaning 3 Oct 2020
A very pleasant day cleaning the Stupas. Thanks to all the helpers: Tom, Bruce, Peter, Karen, Christine, Dave, Cooper, Molly and Annie.
Finishing Touches on curved section of footing – November 2019
Adding drainage pipe to bottom of trench and back filling.
Many thanks to Tom, Lay, Peter, Bruce, Annie.
Footings for curved wall at northern end of Stupas – Aug/ Sept 2019
Here we’re digging, making boxing and pouring concrete for at the northern end of the Stupas by the Parinirvana Stupa. It’s a particularly narrow part of the hill and the original retaining walls weren’t symmetrical. So we decided to make this section into a nice curved wall at the end which will make the two sides symmetrical. Eventually there will be a 2m wide gate at the northern end. The curved wall was an alteration to the original plan so we had to cut away a small section of the original wall before we could do anything else.
These photos are from two working bees in August and September 2019.
Many thanks to Lay, Tom, Peter, Bruce, Molly, Dave, Annie.
Stupa Cleaning 7 July 2019
Lovely sunny Sunday cleaning stupas, many thanks to: Sean, Lan Mai, Melissa, Peter, Leigh and Tana, David and Molly, Kelly, Dr Lodoe, Datenba, Tom, Lay and Annie.
Delicious Raw Honey for Sale
These pots of honey make wonderful gifts.
All Proceeds go towards Stupa Project.
Please contact Annie at greatwallcookbook@gmail.com for orders.
Pouring new footings
It’s been a busy February/March digging holes and filling them with steel and concrete. Many thanks to Dominic, Simone, Tom, Michael and Bruce for all your hard work.
