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April 20th & 21st The clear Friday night developed into a clear, calm and dry weekend, so it was time to get back to the wall. I've built walls before at the Washington house. Made from modern metric bricks, they turned out so neat, that some people thought the pictures were CGI of what I...

April 19th Funny how life is circular. When the old Victorian school was knocked down in 1969, to make way for our house, the site was around one acre, with the bungalow only taking up a small part of that plot. The rest of the land was used as a plant nursery. Here we are in 2024, with plant...

No, because it will block the view for my astronomical observatory.

We are still looking for some more Purple Rock Cress, to make a more solid boundary between the plants and the ballast. Other than that, for now, the planting is done and we need to wait and let everything grow and spread. Next year, we can take another look and see if anything died and whether...

It took a little rethinking of where some of the plants would go, because the replacements were the wrong colour or would spread further or not as far as planned. Obviously they need to grow and fill out the area properly, so it still looks a bit thin for now. The pictures below show the...

April 13th On the 13th, we had another push on the railway embankment. After dropping my daughter off to see some friends, Lynne and I continued to a garden centre and splashed out on more plants, compost and some small garden tools. By the time we got back home, it was lunch time, but...

Many years ago, my dad and I did a narrow gauge World War 1 layout, with a bombed out town, airfield and trenches at the front lines. Somewhere around 1980/81 I think. We scratch built a few locos and rolling stock. There were aircraft on the airfield and flying over the trenches. It was an...

All All my layouts over the years have had some kind of military or aviation theme. Several have had Jeeps on. Here's "Kingman, AZ" the location of Storage Depot 41 where thousands of WW2 planes were scrapped after the war.

:-) She was pulling out of the junction opposite, which is difficult to see down the main road one direction. I think she saw a gap, put her foot down to get out, then hit the ice on the top of the camber in the centre of the road. From that point on-wards, she was a passenger! She wasn't hurt...

It's a busy road, so I think it will naturally weather fairly quickly, however, weathering with paint has already crossed my mind!! :)

For those who are green fingered, here's what we have planted so far. It's so close to being finished in this area. I'm looking forwards to seeing the rest planted, though it is going to look a little thin for a while until the plants get established and spread out.

In early April, I spent a day weeding the small border along the hawthorn hedge - 70 feet out of 100 feet. I've left the bit behind the garage for now. I then dug in a load of sand to help break up the clay soil and help drainage. A week ago, Lynne and I went to a few local garden centres and...

It's been a while since I updated this thread. I want to finish the story of the garden rework, which is almost complete. I left the story with news that was garden wall rearranged, thanks to an icy road and a BMW that buried itself in my front garden wall and snapped the telegraph pole in...

I might have more wall building to do after this morning. At about 7:15am, I think due to icy roads, someone buried their BMW in our front garden wall, also snapping off the top eight feet of the telegraph pole through whiplash! Phone lines and internet down for us and our neighbours!

What was worse, is that in the best traditions of British Rail, it was the "Wrong type of snow", so all trains were cancelled again! and we'd only just recovered from the leaf tragedy! 😁 So here's my wall today, December 2nd, lost under a plastic sheet, several more blankets and a couple of...