A HOUSE OF STRAW
HERMIT’S IDEAL HOME The ideal home can be built at the cost of a few pence —all one needs is sufficient straw. That, at any rate, is the opinion of Mr George Pearce, who, once an innkeeper in the Memlip village, now lives as a hermit in a house of straw hidden amid lonely moorland country near Glastonbury, Somerset.
“The birds taught me all I know about house-building,” Mr Pearce says. “ I studied their nesting activities, and noticed all their little tricks of shaping and interlacing, and then built my own homo from the lessons I learned.” The result is pleasant to look upon, as well as being apparently comfortable to live in. “The rain can’t come in,” Mr Pearce says, “ and I shall be as snug as any citizen beside his fire.” Mr Pearce went to live in the silence and solitude of the moors seven years ago. During that time he has worked transformation around him. He has tamed his rough, seemingly barren patch of soil so that to-day it yields vegetables.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 6
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178A HOUSE OF STRAW Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 6
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