Making an oven from dirt.
A broken up concrete path that we need to get rid of, with the remains of my last big of cement mix.
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Lots of other bits of concrete to make up the plinth
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A few blocks 'recycled' from work. They were given to me... this time.
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Wooden sleepers.
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Fill up the box
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The kids check it out.
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glockenspiel / xylophone which is the one made from bricks?
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Bringing a bit of culture to Cork
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Getting it approved
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Creating a former from sand... after eating a rare steak.
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Covering the sand mound with wet paper.
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Sifting clay and mixing with Sand and water
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Oisín showing me up.
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Making mud cakes!
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Apparently looking from on top gives you a better idea of misses etc. It actually works!
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That Durrow brick is going in no matter what happens.
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Protection from the weather till it dries out a bit.
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The foreman gets paid.
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As did the worker.
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Even the critics get paid.
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Taking the sand out, Will it stay up?
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The Doc Approves!
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Pulling the sand and the bricks out.
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First firing.
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A few crack appear.
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the first collapse. Part of the door arch falls in.
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Getting the arch ready for the second layer.
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Sifting the clay.
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The Side of the oven.
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the work load is too much for Oisín.
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Sawdust in the second layer to honey comb it
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More mixing.
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more mud!
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Rain cover on. Fire it again.
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Only one more layer after this.
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