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# What a thatcher knows about weather
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-06-what-a-thatcher-knows-about-weather/
- Published: 2026-04-24T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:41.000Z
- Description: with Gwen Trask · 47m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

Gwen Trask can tell you what Thursday will do and has never once looked at a forecast. She has been thatching in Somerset for thirty-one years.

> The forecast tells you about the county. I need to know about this roof, on this hill, on Thursday.  
> Gwen Trask

## In this episode

1. 02:40 Reading a sky, described as precisely as she can manage.
2. 13:10 Water reed against combed wheat, and the twenty-year argument.
3. 24:55 The apprentice she turned down, and why.
4. 35:20 On roofs she will not live to see replaced.
5. 42:00 Forty more years.

## Mentioned

- *The Thatcher's Craft*, 1960, still the standard text
- The Somerset Levels reed beds
- A spar hook made by her father

Recorded in a yard near Burrowbridge, in light rain.

[What a thatcher reads in the skyGwen Trask can tell you what Thursday will do. She has never once looked at a forecast.Clara Whitfield](https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/what-a-thatcher-reads-in-the-sky/)