More brick

I am always on the lookout for bricks to add to my small collection, but actually coming across bricks which are suitable and when it is convenient is unusual. So yesterday I was pleased to come across this one in the course of my morning outing.

Quite a heavy brick, with quite a lot of mortar in the frog which needed cutting out. But as luck would have it, old yellow mortar which did cut out, mortar which was not irrevocably bonded to the brick underneath. Unlike the new, grey mortar noticed towards the end of reference 1 - a case of soft brick bonded to hard mortar. Too much cement.

PS 1: a bricklayer in TB once told me that another problem with new, grey mortar is that it cannot accommodate slight movement in the masonry, perhaps the result of dry weather, resulting in unsightly cracks. Just the sort of thing to get mortgage company surveyors going.

PS 2: I have just been reminded of the post at reference 2. The advent of products like 'ChatGPT' just adds to the worries expressed there about the possibly bad consequences of clever and interesting IT. In any event, more news on the ChatGPT front shortly, which may include a go with the Google offering 'Bard'.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/06/pork-feast.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/04/possibly-bad-science.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/02/chatter.html. A first outing with ChatGPT.