Like many villagers in the area, he has had a close encounter with a tiger—spearing it through the thatched roof of his home as the cat was attacking his cousin.
He thatched his hut with straw.
His circular, thatched-roof hut with walls of dried mud and straw is the same dwelling that has dotted Ethiopia's countryside for centuries.
I went through a few bends and looked at the pool of water. I came to the first arbor that I met for a moment, and I thought about the next intersection. There was a blue stone moss and a thatched cottage.
But he seemed not to hear. Only the shiver of wind in the trees and the tittering of rain on the thatched roof broke that eerie silence.
In the seventeenth century, the colonist here thatched their roofs with reeds and straw, just as they did in England.
One school is built from shiny new corrugated iron and a roof thatched with coconut leaves.
It was a very poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palmleaf, winding all over a steep hillside.
Liu Bei paid three visits to the thatched cottage without complaint. He finally succeeded in inviting Zhuge Liang to be his military adviser and to help the Brothers in their cause.
Three-quarters of all South African families now live in a “formal” home (usually a concrete or brick bungalow instead of a rough shack or thatched mud hut), up from just under two-thirds in 1996.
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