tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post1423930764459669979..comments2023-10-28T08:41:58.349+01:00Comments on Codlins and Cream: A Day out in Dorchester and nearby . . .Bovey Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-11125838230797040382008-02-22T20:53:00.000+00:002008-02-22T20:53:00.000+00:00Thanks for your patience to answer my questions.Na...Thanks for your patience to answer my questions.<BR/>Nancynancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587048072191384586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-52663355998286685542008-02-22T08:10:00.000+00:002008-02-22T08:10:00.000+00:00I've never had to define a cottage before. It can...I've never had to define a cottage before. It can be tiny - or it can be a more substantial size. A thatched roof generally defines it (not that many thatched houses). Cob walls - that is, walls made of mud, straw, animal dung etc mixed together and built up (I suppose a bit like adobe walls?) Small windows. Originally built for the rural poor. The ones shown in Helen Allingham paintings look wonderfully picteuresque from the outside but you would probably not have wanted to live in them - crawling with cockroaches, sometimes just earthen floors, no sanitation - you went down to the privy at the end of the garden for that. Water carried from the well. My ex-husband's Dorset aunty lived in one not much better - only cold running water which had to be pumped up into the sink, and no hot water and no bathroom. Loo in a wriggly tin shed up the garden . . .<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you are enjoying the rabbit trails!Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-91880495605296770552008-02-22T01:57:00.000+00:002008-02-22T01:57:00.000+00:00Hi Jennie. I went and looked at the other cottage...Hi Jennie. I went and looked at the other cottage pictures. I think my mistaken picture of a cottage was that it had to be tiny. Some of the cottages I see are huge! Is cottage simply the name of a style? What is the roof made of on these? I'm assuming the materials now are different than the original.<BR/>Nancynancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587048072191384586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-15160458042853924312008-02-21T16:01:00.000+00:002008-02-21T16:01:00.000+00:00Another wonderful day out. So much to think about...Another wonderful day out. So much to think about and follow up on. You give me all these rabbit trails to go down (as if I don't come up with enough of my own).<BR/>Thank you again. Believe it or not, I have never read "Far from the Madding Crowd. There's another for my list.<BR/>Nancynancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587048072191384586noreply@blogger.com