05-17-2009, 11:02 PM
CardShark Wrote:Been paintballing for your birthday then?Even more fun than that. I've been cobbing.
4 parts topsoil + 2 parts sharp sand + 1 part clay slip and a few handfuls of straw mixed by raking and shovelling, rolling it in a tarpaulin, and trampling on it. I've been helping mix and carry bucketloads of this cob to make a four-inch layer of flooring which we then tamped down with planks. Very heavy going for someone of my now advanced years.
I have never been paintballing ... yet.