It is on days like this that I sometimes ask myself why I am not sitting behind a comfortable desk in a clean office, with coffee on tap, logical emails to answer, and people around me that I understand.
Instead, I spent my morning in Bab el Khmis; the noisy, industrial area of the Marakech Medina.  [...]

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Villa 6 was missing something vital for a while there. But now it feels complete. As you enter the villa into the central corridor you are struck by the sense of space and light, largely due to the 7 metre skylight running the length of the heart of the villa.
There has been a lot of [...]

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I’ve been slack and am long overdue for a blog post. To be fair, I have actually been really very busy, along with the rest of the team. Does that count as an excuse for the lack of blogging?
But the good news is…we have finished Villa 5! Can I tell you that, due to deadlines [...]

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Deadlines are definitely a moving target in Morocco. If you can run fast enough to catch hold of its tail to rein it in, you are doing well. When I asked a tradesman this week, ‘which day will you be finished?’, his helpful answer was that, ‘in Morocco, one, two, or four days late is [...]

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I left Marrakech in a taxi this morning, hoping to escape the 44 degree heat and found it was even hotter in the mountains - that is definitely unusual. But no choice; the l’Amandier site was due a visit.
Despite the heat, work was continuing and even Said’s dad was wielding a hoe and clearing the [...]

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