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Dunno, the organiser just phoned me this morning and said that one of the new guys that's been showing up that looks like Boris Johnson knows somebody that used to play for Lazio that wants to play on Friday. Johnson gets stuck in so I can only assume he's fairly young still.
I'm definately going on the course (unless it's cancelled in which case I'm playing footy while the bird warms up the bed for me!)
Cob building is basically making your own materials to build with using clay, sand and straw. It's low impact, cheap and sustainable. It's just an introductory DVD that we'll watch but we'll be doing some dry stuff about volunteer retention through experiental learning, a lecture about unvented solar hot water heating, along with some reviewing work, outdoor hot tubbing, sauna-ing and sleeping in a thatched roundhouse or a tipi.
Should be good but the footy would be comparable to playing with somebody that used to play for Man United or something.