Southward, alongside dark stacks of timber, the first sun lights steam from the wood-chip boiler that powers glasshouses of Alstroemeria.
For a start the man had somehow solved the swirling wind problem, by the careful positioning of a windbreak, then laid out a sleeping area under the rigged-up tarpaulin - ground sheet, mats and sleeping bags - made a stack of dry timber and conjured up a three-course dinner (grilled sardines, chicken stew and strawberries) with wine.
"But I know it is a lot... they have a stack [of timber] as big as a mountain".
They were discovered in wooden crates that were deliberately designed to look like stacks of sawn timber.
Made out of brick, developers aimed to reflect the site's dock side history with projecting timber boxes at both pine ends of the rectangular building to appear like "an irregular stack of large baulks of timber".
Without Iseult and the children, Joe's home is just "a stack of bricks and timbers, enclosing nothing.
We would select and hand fell a tree with a chainsaw, remove the branches, cross-cut the length of timber and stack the logs by hand.
After one bereavement, he describes how trees guided him "through the dark forest of loss": "the meditative work of stacking timber and piling up brash had whittled away at my grief".
The rear wall was fabricated from a stack of ten-by-ten pine timbers by a Norwegian shipbuilding firm, which used a computer-controlled industrial machine to carve undulating recesses, in which visitors can sit or recline.
In a desk was a stack of letterheads with Chinese stamps and a timber price list.
