Look No Chimney

A few hours' strenuously gritty labour [but not as hard as I anticipated] transformed the chimney back into an orderly pile of bricks.We removed the crushed block bits,replacing them with stronger [we hope] and upright blocks,threw some shelves over the top to further reinforce the structure,and are ready to rebuild the chimney.Next week.
This is a view of the back of the kiln,with the back burner port next to the square exit flue.Above are two salting ports,blocked up when we realised that they are obscured by the chimney.So much for planning.It looks disconcertingly human,but not unfriendly,I think. Our forefathers [and foremothers] worked with bricks in Egypt,as we are currently reading in Exodus.I hope they didn't have to take down any of those pyramids.