In a message dated 23/08/2006 08:29:40 GMT Standard Time,
david.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk writes:
I rather like the idea of fully paid up subscribers getting a freebie
myco-brick taped to the front of the last issue and hapless readers,
who unwittingly mistake the article for something of educational
value, end up carrying it around with them for the purposes of
positive identification.
As Arbs I suspect very few of us are actually qualified to comment on
bricks. Certainly not me. I have observed however that bricks do come in
different
sizes, however none are the size of Wales. I believe metrication (or was it
metrification? or decimilisation) is responsible for the confusion over the
size of bricks, that and the HSE deciding that hod carriers should not be
overloaded, thus bricks are now routinely shoved on the top of scaffolds
using
those great big 'telehoist' devices which of course cause compaction over
tree
roots and knock branches off..... Oh yes, so the brick used to determine
scale
is not that handy.
Did you know they used to make curved bricks for building chimneys? Those
big industrial (Fred Dibnah) chimneys, and the top ones were smaller than the
bottom ones, so the chimneys tapered and were very stable. At least I think
they did but of course that's outside my field.
I'm sorry, I'm rambling again.
Bill.
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