Hello you lot. I do hope you are all well. So...my time at the farm has come to an end. It wasn't the idle goat prodding I was expecting, instead I have spent the last two weeks building a house. Yes, a house. And not just any old house, no, a Cob house. Cob, for those who don’t know is a very old building material made from a combination of clay mud, straw and a dribble of water. You mash it all up, make it in to big blocks and away you go. Very simples but very very hard work, especially for an office softened chap like me. We started by making it by hand, using our feet to stomp the mix together, this was slow and hard We considered buying a cow to mash it
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