{"id":100,"date":"2008-03-27T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-03-27T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:52:05","slug":"100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have these perpetual calendars by the dinner table, where they basically act as conversation pieces.\u00a0 This year we have 365 photos of France and a CP (grade 1) word calendar.<\/p>\n

Today’s French calendar was particularly cool.\u00a0 This is the Bastide de Montpazier in south-western France.\u00a0 It’s a planned town like Milton Keynes or Columbia, but built in the 13th century.\u00a0 Its already a bit surprising to find urban planning at that date, but I had come across other examples when I studied early Renaissance Tuscany. It was built at a time when this part of France belonged to England, and the idea was to reinforce the English presence near the French border.<\/p>\n

Now the really interesting part is that as the town was carefully designed, there is a 40cm gap between the buildings.\u00a0 It was put there to act as a fire break and for, erm… waste disposal.\u00a0 We had a great time with this!\u00a0 Our first thought was that it would be more of a fire hazard, but we were thinking modern waste: paper, plastics, and so on.\u00a0 Their trash probably consisted of kitchen waste, sewerage, and maybe some broken pottery.\u00a0 Very wet. A perfect little compost heap.\u00a0 A bit smelly, I would imagine, but useful.\u00a0 We wonder if it generated enough heat to help warm the houses.\u00a0 Without actually becoming a fire hazard?!\u00a0 Why have none of the eco-architects come up with a way to heat our houses with compost heaps?<\/p>\n

Montpazier<\/a> is now classed one of the most beautiful villages in France.\u00a0 We have never been there – yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have these perpetual calendars by the dinner table, where they basically act as conversation pieces.\u00a0 This year we have 365 photos of France and a CP (grade 1) word calendar. Today’s French calendar was particularly cool.\u00a0 This is the Bastide de Montpazier in south-western France.\u00a0 It’s a planned town like Milton Keynes or Columbia, … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}