Mirror Works: Back to Basics - High Time for a Man of Straw

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THE modern world is lived in a blur of hi-tech wizardry, but some still choose to stick with the old ways. In our Back to Basics series we meet a thatcher in Suffolk - a job which has been carried out since the Middle Ages.

Your name and age: Dominic Meek, 33.

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Mirror Works: Back to Basics - High Time for a Man of Straw

What do you do? I'm a long straw thatcher working around East Anglia. I spend a lot of time laying out the straw, making yelms (straw tiles) and then fixin...

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