{"id":3396,"date":"2014-01-06T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:34:03","slug":"bristol-post-balls-write-em-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3396","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls – Write ’em cowboy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides its use in the agricultural context, the term ‘cowboy<\/a>‘ has long been in use informally to describe a person who is an irresponsible or unscrupulous operator, as in the phrase cowboy builder<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Today’s Bristol Post carries a report<\/a> where it’s uncertain as to who are the cowboys – the builders or the journalists who wrote the piece.<\/p>\n

The report in question covers repairs and refurbishment works currently underway at the former home of Thomas Chatterton<\/a> (20th November 1752 \u2013 24th August 1770), Bristol’s renowned 18th century poet and forger of alleged medieval literary works.<\/p>\n

With a sharp eye for inaccuracies, my attention was drawn to the following passage in paragraph 8:<\/p>\n

Lathe and plaster is being used on the walls and re-rendering on the outside is being carried out with limestone instead of modern materials so the original stonework can “breathe”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For anyone familiar with traditional building techniques, the 2 absolute howlers in there are immediately apparent.<\/p>\n

For anyone unfamiliar with traditional building techniques, such as passing Bristol Post journalists in search of enlightenment, here’s an illustrated guide showing where the authors went wrong.<\/p>\n

Here is a lathe<\/a>: this one is for working metal; other types can be used for wood and other materials.<\/p>\n

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Here are some laths<\/a>, minus their original plaster coating.<\/p>\n

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This is limestone – a whole pavement<\/a> of it.<\/p>\n

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This is a house in St. Davids<\/a>, Wales showing a traditional limewash finish<\/a>, yellow ochre coloured in this case.<\/p>\n

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Besides its use in the agricultural context, the term ‘cowboy‘ has long been in use informally to describe a person who is an irresponsible or unscrupulous operator, as in the phrase cowboy builder. Today’s Bristol Post carries a report where it’s uncertain as to who are the cowboys – the builders or the journalists who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}