Now, so far this thread has little to do with pizza, but bear with me, I'm getting there.
Mrs. Roobarb rather fancies herself at being able to sniff out a bargain, and found another soil guy who seemed to be a few Baht cheaper than the first one and so struck a deal for him to fill the driveway area.
Unfortunately rather than it being nice rich topsoil like the stuff the (marginally) more expensive first guy had sent, or even that stuff with little stones in it that is quite useful for dirt roads, what we were sent was solid clay.
Again, sorry that there are no pictures but this stuff was big chunks of gloppy grey clay straight from the bottom of a pond somewhere. Not only was it a bugger to try to landscape, but as it in itself didn't drain our bog became more of small inland sea.
The upside was that the kids had fun making little clay animals and things, and it got me thinking.
Somewhere, a year or two back, Nawty had done a thread on TD about a rather suggestive pizza oven that he'd built from clay.
With apologies to Nawty for nicking these two photos off his thread and sticking them on this photoless post, this is what he built:
Step 1: Concrete rings, firebricks and a chicken cage
Stage 2: Cover in clay and create the oven:
As a rustic erection goes it was certainly impressive and for some reason the image had remained burned in my memory
How difficult could creating something similar be?