1st December 2022Time for the big reveal! The completed gate was carried out to the workshop patio for a picture. The plan beyond the...
The full bottle of SBK did about half the lawn and then I switched to some Resolva Extra which I still had. It was applied with a 7.5 litre...
27th November 2022I planned to slate the area behind the observatory. To keep leaves and hedge clippings out of the slate, I was going to add...
24th November 2022A couple of days later, it was sprayed red on one side and white on the other.[IMG]26th November 2022Along with the...
19th November 2022After painting the metal hardware, I spent a couple of days sanding and filling the woodwork, then began painting the gate on...
15th November 2022By the 15th, all the metalwork had been cleaned up and painted in at least two coats of Smooth Black Hammerite. A few of these...
I ordered 40 tree trunk effect stepping stones for my woodland this morning and spent ages this afternoon, spraying gallons of weedkiller on the...
I have been spreading the chippings around the woodland, but for the path, we are planning on using some circular tree ring stepping stones. I'll...
6th November 2022It was really cold outside by this time, but we dragged ourselves out to do some work before the ground started to freeze....
14th October 2022Back to the gate and a little history. Since childhood, I've had a long interest in railways - mainly the steam era. In my...
What about a vacuum cleaner using the hose attachment?
Another job I forgot to mention was done in mid September. I pulled everything out of the shed and built a number of shelves around the walls....
That's just my neighbour's driveway, not a public road. We have a fox, bats, rabbits, hedgehogs, squirrels and pheasants that frequently visit.
9th October 2022After a day of painting and a couple of days for the paint to harden off, we began assembling them between the shed and...
As you may have noticed from the dates, this was still the back end of 2022 ( I still working on the garden now! ). On the last day of September,...
7th August 2022I started fitting the trim and cover strips over the joints in the observatory wall panels. During this, the drive belt on my...
We were out clearing a path through our little woodland this morning ( as discussed a few posts ago ). There were a lot of brambles and nettles to...
5th August 2022With several hours of clear sky forecast that night, I was in a race to get the observatory operational; so I could pack up on my...
3rd August 2022Observatory work was paused on the 3rd as we needed to cut the park side of our Hawthorn hedge. There's no access from our...
28th July ~ 2nd August 2022There were lots of small jobs done over the next few days. Starting on the 28th, the other pier adapter was fitted to...
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