Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
It is not often one sees sheets of tin like that. Is it tin or something else? It does not look easy to work.
ReplyDeleteIt is nothing like a I have ever seen before. It looks like tin but I somehow feel that it isn't. I wondered if it was sisalkraft but it would be a bit weird using that as external sheeting.
ReplyDeleteThis will sound wierd, but I wonder if it could be sheets of lead. Something is pinging in my head. From way back. Not at all sure. Something to do with those 'bubbles' ...
ReplyDeleteI thought it was lead too. An interesting site.
ReplyDeleteActually that sounds like a possibility.
ReplyDeleteLead is soft to work which is why it was used as a flange for so long.
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