The Mud House Audiobook
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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: The Mud House Subtitle: How Four Friends Built a Place in the Australian Bush Categories: Biography Release date: 01-28-2016 Language: English Summary: Four friends. One block of land. No power tools. 'One day,' Philip said, 'I'd like to build something bigger.... Like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go.' It was just an idea. Then it started to take shape. In this frank, funny and thought-provoking memoir, Richard Glover describes how he and his friend, Philip, and their partners built a house in the bush on weekends. It was a huge and exhausting undertaking...not least because they decided to use mudbricks. 'Imagine this - with mudbrick you have a building that is made out of the very earth it stands on.... There is another thing: the stuff is free. Once we buy the land we'll have no money left. This way we can get started as soon as we have the block.' In the end it took three years simply to make the bricks. As for the house itself... #ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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