Rare birds.
I’ve just seen on the news that there is ‘black redstart’ with a nest full of young at a ’secret location’ somewhere in Birmingham! Apparently there are only 24 breeding pairs of the birds left in the country! How do they find each other I wonder? We often get birds nesting in our pallets of uncut stone. You may think it’s an excuse, but we do sometimes have to delay stone fireplaces because we’re waiting for the chicks to fly. I think they like the feeling of a big solid lump of stone to nest against. I think it always keeps them a bit cooler too in years like this when we’re getting some hot weather.
We’re just looking at a building project for a council in the north of England, where they want to add a stone staircase to the entrance to a new library extension. It’s a lovely bit of design, and quite traditional, and they like our clean unfussy designs so we are optimistic.
We have also been given the job of supplying stone fireplaces for new build house in Brittany. It’s owned by a British business man, and we’ll send a couple of guys out there in early September, and make the fireplaces on site, as it’s not very ‘green’ to ship the stone from France to here, cut it, then ship it back!