The second photo is the outhouse we built when I would have been five so a good 32 years now, the house was built from 1986 to 1990. It still wasn't finished when we moved to WA, the wood is new but the bricks are the ones we laid.

It does get cold there, sub-zero, I remember many mornings the pipes in the car were frozen and we had to pour the kettle over so we could get to school. The best thing about mudbrick was it's ability to keep the heat in from the potbelly in winter and the heat from the sun out in summer. It's a brilliant renewable building source.

If we ever went offgrid this the house type I would build. It involved a lot of working bee's and many muddy days but we had a dam we could wash off in close by and we were never short of family friends will to help. We traded their labour for ours as they were building their own at the same time. One was made completely of rocks we collected from the sides of the road. Bit by bit, year by year we built his house too. A labour of love, I wish I have photo's of that too.