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An update with some work in progress following a fairly brutal storm yesterday. Despite the wind and rain it doesn’t appear to have been a problem that the roof wasn’t finished.
Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb mar a déarfá.
Some lovely traditional work being carried out replacing thatch on the only remaining thatched roofed cottage around here.
Always disappointing when the little English village where the murder takes place has no #thatch roofs.
Thatching uses the rain’s angle of descent against it. The material isn’t in itself waterproof, but it guides the drops from the roof’s surface to the ground. It’s gravity judo. I watched the thatch going up on this row of cottages. It was weirdly restful.
I am now in possession of a nearly 30-page book on thatch roofs and will shortly become more knowledgeable about thatching than most people I am likely to encounter on a daily basis. #Thatch
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@PaulWermer @RolfAE @straphanger
Just read a fantastic one, on the work of John Letts, from 2001:
"No one had excavated a thatched roof before."
"Before systematic crop breeding, cereals evolved into local land races. Different soils, slope, shading and drainage gave endless possibilities for adaptation. With variety in the seed stock, crops would grow differently even across a single farm. Whatever the weather or diseases, something would always flourish."
"Old thatch provides an opportunity to study this lost diversity. Letts often finds a mix of bread wheat, English rivet wheat - not grown commercially for more than a century - rye, oats and barley. He has also found 35 different weeds, from corn cockle and cornflower - now vanished from English farms - to yellow rattle and cow wheat."
The Guardian · The last straw?
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This was the first time I've been outside North America, and I couldn't dream of a better place for my first international trip to Europe.
It was a wonderful trip, and one that forced me to disconnect, be present in the moment, and experience different perspectives.
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@Helengraham Yes the wooden framing appears sound under the thatch roof. The home site is amazing. The chickens will love it. You will always have projects. Namaste. #thatch is sustainable roofing.
A nice reconstructed #thatch #village near Kilarney, Co. Kerry.
Thatch and tourism go well together in Ireland and the thatch cottages generate a considerable amount of money.
Why can't local authorities in Ireland pay more attention to the few remaining genuine thatch cottages that we have left?
They are hundreds of years old and we only have a few hundred left?
The vicar blessed the reeds & the legget, & prayed for the safety of the workers about to start on the #NewRoof:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23663510.beccles-area-church-rethatched-coronation-coincidence/
Great to be back at the Star Inn, Harome, a year after the fire that nearly burned it to the ground #StarInnHarome #NorthYorkshire #thatch
Here's the way the #traditional #Thatch house in #Ireland develops normally.
You start by building - with your own hands a one room cottage with a byre attached for housing your animals. Often the byre is on the downhill side so that the animal urine soaks away from the house
As time goes by and you get really modern, you add on a bedroom uphill side, against the fireplace wall.
The next step into the future is...? Well, sadly, the next step will probably be to get rid of the thatch roof.
Recently, #Ireland has experienced exceptionally hot summers and unusually heavy #rain and high #winds in #autumn.
The summer heat has caused the #thatch on the #roofs to shrink and reduces its ability to stand up to the high #winds and #storms of winter.
A leaking roof will quickly wash away the clay-walls of many of #Ireland's few remaining iconic mud-walled thatched cottages.
They need all the #love and #support we can give them.
It's a real #climatechange crisis.
