He is out in the hayfields possibly this afternoon, or thatching, or doing his hedges.
I could not get a book on thatching, so we worked it out.
Any man who can look after stock, or do one of the complicated operations of farming, like thatching, is really a key man.
It has saved thatching and wheelwrighting from extinction.
Some of them are experts, at thatching, blacksmiths' work, or helping out in the harvest fields.
Thatching and lime plastering, which can only be done during the summer months, are similarly expensive.
This is not confined to reeds used for thatching.
We have received no evidence that the imported thatching reed is subsidised.
