This week saw me visiting clients in the beautiful Suffolk village of Lavenham and the equally-beautiful seaside resort of Aldeburgh.
Title Music: "Babylon" by Tom P. Simanek (tps607)
Addition Music: "No Good Layabout" by Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com
Here are the notes I promised you!
"Wattle and daub" are building materials used in constructing houses. A woven latticework of wooden stakes called wattles is daubed with a mixture of clay and sand and sometimes animal dung and straw to create a structure. The daub was sometimes mixed (a laborious process by hand) by placing it in farm gateways for the animals to trample through. Hence the dung would have been introduced more as a side-effect than intentionally, although it does no harm to the mix. It is normally whitewashed to increase its resistance to rain. Examples of buildings which use wattle and daub can still be found in many parts of the world. In half-timbered buildings, the wattle and daub is contained between wooden beams. This usually gives the building a black and white appearance when the daub is whitewashed, or black and brown, if it is not.
"The Scallop" by Maggi Hambling is a sculpture dedicated to composer Benjamin Britten on the beach at Aldeburgh. The edge of the shell is pierced with the words "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" from Peter Grimes.
