It's been a while since I posted about My Big Fat Greek Oven, but we've been having problems with the puter.. so finally.. here in the next installment:
Last week, we turned up at CFdM to be greeted with Nick and Bill having built the base....remember, this whole thing has been built by 2 80 year old men who use nothing but an old golf stick for a measuring tool....
Furry looks on, redundant...
The 4 inch thick fire base is poured.... all the concrete has been mixed by hand, using no discernible measuring tools....
The all think it's completely hysterical that I am running around with a camera, and putting their pictures up on the "Inerneta"
There is mucho discussion about the shape of the oven... Bill and Nick tell me that it must be "square over cupola for not too many crackings..."
I maintain I want a dome shape and make the appropriate motions with my hands.. and saying, No, no.. must be Il Duomo.. (duomo sounds like dome, right???)
Ummm.. No... Duomo apparently means Cathedral.. I have instructed these Greeks Bearing Bricks to build me a catherdral...
Good Lawd!!!
Nick starts to build the base of the oven... planning the opening... Again, there's not a spirit level or a mixing tool in sight...
Also please note: these photos are all take BEFORE 7.30AM on a Sunday morning!!!
We have to be finished by 11.30 so Nick can go home for medicine for his sore tooth (a nip of Scotch at 11.30 am....)
so..we head back to Melbourne having NO IDEA what will await us the following (this just past) weekend.
I make furry go into the back yard, so he can prepare me for Il Cathedral, neh??
This is what we are greeted with...
And here is Nick building the chimbley
Some more of the finished product!!!
Please note how the chimney resembles the ramparts of Carthage....
Please note: Nick is using a dodgy old picnic table as a scaffold here:
Master Lima Bean looks on, astounded by the artisanal skill..seriously.. he is gobsmacked and humbled by it all...(and admits he's a complete wanker and always though "tradies" were a bit beneath him)
And finally... we get to burn all the old bags od cement, to "putta a nice lime ona the roof.. for to makea nice for the goatses"
Stand by for the big firing nezt week.. once the render has dried....
and then, possibly the week after.... we get to cook in it!!!!
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