Why I built a traditional Saxon house in the garden for my nine-year-old son

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/built-traditional-saxon-house-garden-nine-year-old-son/

what a great project...!

[Justin Swanton]

That's not a proper grubenhaus! Where's the sunken floor and the central hearth? And the roof needs to touch the ground. And the whole thing should be on fire from Norse raiding.

Amateurs...

[Erpingham]

That's not a proper grubenhaus! Where's the sunken floor and the central hearth? And the roof needs to touch the ground. And the whole thing should be on fire from Norse raiding.

Amateurs...

I suspect you don't fully understand UK planning law when it comes to garden sheds, Justin. 

[Justin Swanton]

That's not a proper grubenhaus! Where's the sunken floor and the central hearth? And the roof needs to touch the ground. And the whole thing should be on fire from Norse raiding.

Amateurs...

I suspect you don't fully understand UK planning law when it comes to garden sheds, Justin.

True. I was coming from another context.

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Baldie]

Also an axe, what a great dad

[Imperial Dave]

oh I know...I can remember as a lad being given a scout knife, a hand axe and eventually a small revolver by my grandad