I hope over the days,weeks I will be able to describe with photos how it all came together.
This was the start, laying a concrete slab and building a base with concrete blocks. Not a lot of skill required, just sweat! 2nd picture shows completed base. It looked huge at this point but when its all done it all looks to scale.

This project started after a few holidays in italy where we had use of a pizza oven and after much prevarication and sceptism from many people decided to go ahead and build one for myself. Did a lot of research on the net and read various books before deciding on a clay oven as it seemed to be the simplest and most importantly the cheapest way to achieve what I wanted. Like all projects when starting out it seemed quite daunting and it progessed slowly to start with and then built up a momentum all of its own. Lots of hard but enjoyable work and so satisfying when each stage has been finished.