The Wretched Carrier One day I decided to make a dessert to surprise mum. I went to the fruit and vegetable shop where I had to wriggle past old grannies who were in my way.I picked cranberries,rhubarb and at random a blueberry and strawberry punnet.I hadn't made up my mind to what I was going to make. The fruit was juicy looking sitting on the ridge beside the man. I gave the man the correct money and almost crawled home with my heavy bag. I was so glad that errand was finished. I felt such a wreck that I sat down and fell asleep. When I woke,my mum was furious and went off like a rattlesnake to the kitchen with my ear in her hand[only joking].The fruit had fell like a rainforest all over the floor because the wretched carrier had snapped with the weight. I had to suffer the wrath of mum and we only got a ration of what fruit was left instead of my lovely dessert which I quite forgot about anyway. Whoops sorry mum......
The sheep poo we have collected is completely sterilized by boiling it in a specially designed pressure cooker at over 120 degrees centigrade (using only the purest Welsh mountain water, of course) and then washed repeatedly over a period of days until it has lost approximately half its original weight (Sheep Fact: a sheep only digests 50% of the cellulose fibers it eats). The washing process produces a big pile of usable fibers and, as a by-product it also produces a clean, sterile, rich, liquid fertilizer which we store in a tank at the mill and pass on to local growers. (Do you want some fertilizer? Why not contact us to ask?) It takes many hours to beat the cellulose fiber and blend it with other recycled pulps until it reduces to a pulp suitable for making paper. This is a difficult process to get right and the exact method is a closely guarded secret.
Using only traditional papermaking techniques we then form the pulp into sheets using special sieves (called a "mould and deckle") and lay them out in stacks using felt in between each sheet to keep them from sticking together. The stacked and felted sheets are then pressed under huge pressure to remove most of the remaining water and encourage the cellulose fibers to bond at a molecular scale - this is what gives the paper its strength. Hanging the paper up in the roof rafters of the mill to season them finishes off the drying process.
We also make some of our paper using a very old working example of a 'Fourdrinier' continuous papermaking machine which we periodically hire from a UK papermaking museum - this machine sprays the liquid pulp onto a continuous moving mesh and the water is squeezed out between heated rollers - this gives a stunningly smooth finish, although you can still see the flecks in the paper that come from the sheep poo
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The Wretched Carrier
One day I decided to make a dessert to surprise mum.
I went to the fruit and vegetable shop where I had to wriggle past old grannies who were in my way.I picked cranberries,rhubarb and at random a blueberry and strawberry punnet.I hadn't made up my mind to what I was going to make.
The fruit was juicy looking sitting on the ridge beside the man. I gave the man the correct money and almost crawled home with my heavy bag. I was so glad that errand was finished. I felt such a wreck that I sat down and fell asleep.
When I woke,my mum was furious and went off like a rattlesnake to the kitchen with my ear in her hand[only joking].The fruit had fell like a rainforest all over the floor because the wretched carrier had snapped with the weight. I had to suffer the wrath of mum and we only got a ration of what fruit was left instead of my lovely dessert which I quite forgot about anyway. Whoops sorry mum......
proved u wrong
The sheep poo we have collected is completely sterilized by boiling it in a specially designed pressure cooker at over 120 degrees centigrade (using only the purest Welsh mountain water, of course) and then washed repeatedly over a period of days until it has lost approximately half its original weight (Sheep Fact: a sheep only digests 50% of the cellulose fibers it eats).
The washing process produces a big pile of usable fibers and, as a by-product it also produces a clean, sterile, rich, liquid fertilizer which we store in a tank at the mill and pass on to local growers. (Do you want some fertilizer? Why not contact us to ask?)
It takes many hours to beat the cellulose fiber and blend it with other recycled pulps until it reduces to a pulp suitable for making paper. This is a difficult process to get right and the exact method is a closely guarded secret.
Using only traditional papermaking techniques we then form the pulp into sheets using special sieves (called a "mould and deckle") and lay them out in stacks using felt in between each sheet to keep them from sticking together.
The stacked and felted sheets are then pressed under huge pressure to remove most of the remaining water and encourage the cellulose fibers to bond at a molecular scale - this is what gives the paper its strength. Hanging the paper up in the roof rafters of the mill to season them finishes off the drying process.
We also make some of our paper using a very old working example of a 'Fourdrinier' continuous papermaking machine which we periodically hire from a UK papermaking museum - this machine sprays the liquid pulp onto a continuous moving mesh and the water is squeezed out between heated rollers - this gives a stunningly smooth finish, although you can still see the flecks in the paper that come from the sheep poo
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