Chapter 18.Lessons from a bricklayer
Hi. Bricklaying is the special skill and not anyone can be a Bricklayer. I personally failed to build a pit toilet.I'm note ashamed to share my success and failure to other people being a mathematics guru. The bricklayer expert told me that I needed a correct,relevant plan on paper and translate it to the piece of land and that plan must have paper measurement and land measurement to what we call relevant scale. To be honest to myself I did not have any plan,no measurements on paper but measurements on my head,sometimes messing them. I mixed the cement with ten wheelbarrows of sand with minimum water of 10 litres of water.I mixed the dung.I did have a fishline/coil.I had 6 croocked sticks.I had cement bricks.The pit was already there I have to ding my trenches around the pit.I laid the cement on that trench and put the bricks on top of each other until 2 meters high.I did not forget to put the door frame. Whew! I patted myself that I...