To: Benny Menczer
Subject: Bliss kitchen - want to help build a mud brick oven?



Hi Benny, Please forward the following to all the lovely Sydney Blissfuls.

Also, I'd like to get in contact with your German stonemason friend, do you
have his contact details?

Big warm hugs,

Andrea.

Hello my Blissful lovelies,



The weather is warming up and thoughts are turning to... summer confest!



One of the projects we are planning is a mud brick oven (constructed in a
way which will allow us to use it during fire bans).

Think of all those delicious things we can cook; wood fired pizzas and
breads, as well as anything you can cook in a normal oven... but tastier.

We might even build it with a second fire at the side with a hotplate on
top. Have a look at this oven:
http://www.woodfiredovenworkshops.com/lavendulaoven.htm I was thinking of a
more organic shape, however. An idea is to decorate the exterior with
colourful pieces of broken crockery in a mosaic style, so if you break any
plates between now and then, bring them along.



I'm looking at plans and books on the subject at the moment. If you're
interested, the current issue of Grass Roots magazine and the June-Aug issue
of Earth Garden both have articles on building cob ovens. We'll probably be
using some of this technology as well as mud bricks.



Anyone want to get involved?



We'll have a "dirty weekend" on site making mud bricks (probably) 1st - 2nd
Dec, with, of course, plenty of time for sitting around a campfire and
making communal meals (Gavin?? we'd love to see you), as well as planning
how we'll build it. (It won't, unfortunately, be an appropriate weekend to
bring the kids.)



It will take the bricks a few weeks to dry, so I imagine we'll be doing the
actual building just before or after Christmas day (when we'll also be
setting up Bliss once again). We will be delighted to have you participate
at this time as well, either building the oven and/or setting up Bliss.



Any input/ideas you have about this project or anything else at Bliss are
most welcome.



We can organise car pooling if needed.



Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hugs to all,

Andrea.

andreaf@...




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