On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:17 +0000, john lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:13 -0000 (GMT)
> "Damian Brasher" <lug@???> wrote:
>
> > Paul Tamson wrote:
> >
> > > You can take that two ways. Without Microsoft stagnating things,
> > > what innovations would we have had by now? ;)
> > > ** end quote [Adam Trickett]
> >
> > Without soggy mud huts those blokes with the revolutionary kiln
> > down the track wouldn't have made a name for themselves in the
> > village providing waterproof bricks:)
>
> <pedant mode>
> I doubt those mud huts were soggy as lime mortar (a centuries old
> technique) combined with overhanging thatch roofs kept them pretty
> waterproof. There are still cob*' cottages existing in the New Forest
> for example. The link below refers to the use of the technique in
> Devon:
>
> *http://www.cobblocks.co.uk/cobhistory.htm
>
:) Actually I was involved in a project a year ago making a replica Iron
Age round house, good fun and the hut is very robust, cosy and very
quiet, having daubed straw walls...
see
http://www.interlinux.co.uk/images/round_house/images.html
Damian
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Damian Brasher
www.interlinux.co.uk
