https://dykestonewalling.com/A Scottish waller in Barcelona learning Catalan pedra seca on weekend repair days: terrace walls, corbelled huts, hearting, batter frames and slow, honest stonework.enhttps://dykestonewalling.com/journal/closing-the-roof-of-a-barraca/https://dykestonewalling.com/journal/closing-the-roof-of-a-barraca/Helping rebuild the corbelled stone roof of a small vineyard hut in rural Catalonia: rings of stone, a capstone, earth on top, and no timber anywhere at all.Sun, 31 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://dykestonewalling.com/journal/batter-frames-and-string-lines/https://dykestonewalling.com/journal/batter-frames-and-string-lines/How a Scottish batter frame and a Catalan builder's eye approach the same problem of shaping a dry wall, with measurements from four repair days near Barcelona.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://dykestonewalling.com/journal/terraces-above-the-vines/https://dykestonewalling.com/journal/terraces-above-the-vines/Rebuilding a collapsed vineyard terrace wall in the hills west of Barcelona: one face, a bank of earth, drainage, and a batter that looks wrong to a dyker's eye.Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://dykestonewalling.com/journal/hearting-the-part-nobody-sees/https://dykestonewalling.com/journal/hearting-the-part-nobody-sees/Why the small stones packed inside a dry wall matter more than the handsome face stones, as learned on a Galloway field dyke and relearned on a Catalan terrace.Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT