cobbing

[Ms L.f Sutherland]

Dear Rhys/all "cobbers",
Gday cobbers! *laugh* well as you can see I must be an Australian 
*laugh*
I have recently joined this list, being only the latest development 
in a longstanding interest in alternative building technologies (as 
part of a plan to build my own small cottage on my half-acre in the 
central goldfields region of Victoria). In response to your mail, I 
would like to register my interest in possibly participating in a cob 
workshop (in SE Aust before July 97 or after Jan 98). And I would 
like to say how nice it is to have this forum in which some 
discussion and interaction on the topic of cob building is possible.
I should say that my current version of my house forsees post and 
bean construction with mud-brick infill - however if I knew more 
about cob (and about the feasibility of persuading Council on its 
merits) maybe I could do a cob house instead. (Reading about "Bear 
Castle" in Victoria is encouraging - as Australians may know - a 
century old two storey cob building).
Please keep me posted on the plans for the workshop. Thanks.
Lesley Sutherland

> Australians especially:
> 
> Is there anybody interested in running a paid cob workshop near Canberra,
> Australia?  We envisage having footings, frame and roof up and doing infill,
> for an ecovillage project.  Our best time is October 1997.
> 
> Please let me know if interested.
> 
> Rhys
> 
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