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7:09 pm
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ourselves (me and a local villager who helps) He is going to ask his grandfather for advice. Has anybody had a go at a pizza oven? I have consulted several sites and have got some ideas.
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7:33 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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You might find something on the River Cottage web-site, I was watching something recently where he HFW built one such.
I'll try that again!
7:47 pm
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How frustrating,went to RC site, the pic is there but no way to find any info
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7:57 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Sandy, did you look at Instructables?
Their plan isn't really pretty in my opinion, but maybe it will give you a jumping off point?
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Found RC related site now that looks like what I need. Thanks for the info.
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8:50 pm
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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The instructables is a brilliant site - I ended up sourcing stuff from there for a couple of hours - on second thoughts, perhaps I won't go back there !! 
8:52 pm
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I saw the River Cottage programme Toffee Apple mentions. They built theirs out of river clay in just the way I used to build snow igloos when I was little. I think they built it on a concrete slab base.
This guy wrote a blog about his oven building experiences after being an a River Cottage course: http://clayoven.wordpress.com/
8:59 pm
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Yes thats the one I found and have bookmarked. Will start the search for clay tomorrow, I suspect that will be my stumbling block, there are many words for soil types but I have not been able to find one that they will understand correctly...imagination required tomorrow.
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I have been pondering all night on this oven. I have decided not to use sand as the dome form ( our sand here is grey and does not stick together well for sand castles) I am going to use an old pilates ball which I shall be able to deflate once the clay is dry.
I have several sizes of these balls from 34 years ago when I used them to treat CP children and they now are being banded about as being a recent thing 
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9:53 am
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Mon 21-Sep-09
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Do you not have a local pottery? I think you will find they usually have a local source of clay and maybe you could buy it off them. We have plenty of the stuff, and I was thinking of building one too, so I will be interested to know how yours turns out.
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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That's another great site Shereen, not just for the oven either...
I'll try that again!
8:58 pm
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Thanks, TA. I've been ogling his slow roast lamb.
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Shereen - at a very wild guess, slow roast lamb is the furthest thing from TA's mind when she ogles that site!
(OK - I know that you know too, but somebody had to point it out! )
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