You're Not Pulling Hard Enough...

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Michael Buck Built This Beautiful Cob Cottage in Oxfordshire For Less Than One Hundred And Fifty Pounds...

One time art teacher and now farmer Michael Buck built this beautiful Cob house with earth, straw, cow dung and clay for less than one hundred and fifty British pounds. And he did it without using a single power tool.
Using building techniques that have been proven since prehistoric times, Michael created a beautiful home using natural materials that fit in with the landscape rather than intrude upon it.
In a few years time the vegetation surrounding the structure could almost hide it completely from view. Cob houses are renowned for their thermal qualities. They keep warm in winter and cool in summer and have roofs that overhang the walls to keep the rain out.
Michael used windscreens from old farm trucks to create many of the windows, the straw with which he taught himself to thatch came from local fields and the floorboards came from a neighbour's skip.
Then Michael set about building a matching outhouse with a composting toilet.
There's no electricity and water comes from a nearby spring.
One day, if it was left, the house would disappear back into the landscape and all that you'd see would be a mound of dirt.
The little house is rented out and the current tenant pays her rent with green currency, milk from the farm she tends.
It's the simple life that's best...

Where There's A Wheel There's A Way...

Where there's a will there's a way and where there's a fertile imagination there'll be innovative design solutions.
From the top we have the 1910 Edison-Puton Monowheel built in Paris and powered by a 150cc De Dion Engine.
Then there's Swiss engineer Mr Gerdes astride or nearly inside his 1931 one wheel motorcycle that he attempted to travel from Switzerland to Spain. He was last seen in France.
And then we have Englishman Dr John Archibald Purves with his 1932 Dynospere. 
Imagination said Einstein is more important than knowledge...