26th March 2023With the trailer out from between the garage and shed, it left an ideal space to get the slate moved to where it needed...
Here's the seven sleepers, seen back at home, stacked up beside the garage. Unlike the garden sleepers you get at DIY stores and garden centres,...
25th March 2023 - Track Collection DayIt was a rather wet day as I set off for a local heritage railway with the trailer. I left the car and...
23rd March 2023The 23rd was spent shovelling topsoil from the bags into the veggie planters. The 6 x 3ft planters swallowed up large amounts of...
The topsoil was dropped by the shed and was to be used to top up the raised bed veggie planters.[IMG]The other bags were dropped off at the...
21st March 2023On the 21st, we had a large delivery of slate, river gravel and top soil; all dumped on the drive at the front of the house. Most...
Supernovas are very hard to predict, so I'm surprised the articles are giving such a precise date as sometime in September. No doubt as soon as it...
Thanks! :)No more big projects!! ( I hope ). The project for this morning was to trim the Ivy from the bottom edge of the Hawthorn hedge, where...
Yes, I have a 12 x 8ft observatory with two telescopes and a fullsize railway as a garden feature - a nod to the past history of the site when...
Early March 2023It turned really cold at the end of February and early March, then on the 7th, the snow came. With the ground frozen and...
24th February 2023We were back to clearing stuff on the 24th. We had considered keeping the two bushes half way along the wall, but after...
22nd February 2023On the third layer, I added a two feet long sleeper at ninety degrees to the sleeper wall. This had an anchor pin added to the...
16th February 2023Two days later, I began digging out the edge of the lawn and laying sleepers. With the ground being damp, but not wet, it made...
A little trimming, weeding and making weed tea fertilizer today. A lovely warm sunny day. A few more of these in July and August would have been nice.
11th February 2023By mid February, I was back out in the garden. It was still very cold, but so long as it wasn't windy, I could manage. As soon...
31st January 2023Through January, I'd also been planing two sleepers completely flat so that they could be joined. They were cut to about four...
I've been chopping Laurel yet again and trimming a few other things in the woodland. I've also been using some brown silicone on gaps opening up...
I think these are the same Yew. Looking at Google Earth for when they were planted, they appear to be about 20 years old. The tops get chopped...
A New Year, A New Project! - The Year of the Lawn & Railway2nd January 2023While I'd taken a guess at the number of sleepers we'd need, it was...
6th December 2022As the sleepers dried out, I began painting them with shed paint. As you can see, the workshop was a bit full. I was stacking...
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