Got the green house back home today and also picked up two loads of paving slabs from within the village. We carried the green house home, out down the road through Cattistock and were luck enough not to meet a car. The Land Rover seemed well down on the springs. As you might be able to make out of the tape measure, it was about 3.5″ of difference between loaded and unloaded.
Decided I’d shorten the weeds a little, the grass was starting to get a little long also. The edge was not what I like to see, so out came some files and eventually the grinder. This edge was done with a file and elbow grease, the other was done with the grinder far faster, straighter and easier. I didn’t get a picture of edge number two. I did mostly cut the grass having done that. Just need to go around the garden with the strimmer now.
We have had Jason from Burnwood Chimneys in to do the rip out and creation of the opening for the stove. Me rremoving the wall paper before Jason arrives. Day one, the demolition was mostly completed. Day 2 rebuild in progress. Drying well.
We went for a walk yesterday evening and saw this spring bathed in a beautiful yellow evening light.
I joined up with the Dorset Land Rover Club a few weeks back, hoping to make the odd RTV trial at some point this year. They sent me a nice pack of bits consisting of the winter edition of their magazine and a window sticker along with my membership card. Today I thought I’d apply the window sticker somewhere sensible. I don’t understand why a Land Rover club would supply a window sticker. Surely these people have driven Land Rovers and understand that the windscreen is small enough already, and although visibility is already poor, there is no need to actively make it worse. I used a no more nails type adhesive and now it just remains to be seen how well that adheres to the shiny side of the sticker. I tried brake cleaner on what was the sticky side, but once the solvent evaporated it was sticky again, […]
We visited the hill fort at Maiden Castle which is an English Hertitage site, free to visit and park. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/maiden-castle/ On yonder hill you might be able to make out a 21st century settlement known to the locals as Dorch (Dorchester). Tacked on the end (left hand end in this photo) of this is another settlement called Poundland (Poundbury officially, but the non locals like to refer to it this way.) This is the entrance to the west end. Looking out from the West entrance towards Poundbury in the distance. It was a fairly windy day, so bitter up on top of the well exposed hill fort, still fun was had we will certainly return.
We picked up some new big pots last weekend and so the other evening I got this one potted out. That little sprout on the left is going to require grabbing and transplanting soon too. There was another one that has not yet made it through the surface yet too.
I took a trip to do two fords on Gascoyne Lane this afternoon. I had been struggling to find these based on my poor local knowledge. This is the first ford that I came to, very pretty with a good gravel bed and perhaps not that deep, maybe 18 inches or so. This YouTube video is of the same ford. Then I drove on to the next bit of the River Frome here, this is less wide, but faster flowing and deeper, particularly near the bridge where it is more then 2 feet deep. I used a handy stick to dip it as it looked deeper than that and I didn’t want to get wet feet today. This ford was good too, similar to the first one, both lacking a depth marker. I set my tripod up to record this crossing too, dashed back to the land rover and drove […]
Today we visited the village of Moreton where there are many things, but for me, there is just one thing of great interest. There is a ford of some reasonable size: Today i guessed it was about running about 450 mm deep at the deepest parts, over the majority of width it was probably about 300 mm deep. I am looking forward to returning in the Land Rover. While browsing www.wetroads.co.uk I came across another ford down near/in Weymouth; Rather than the route I have proposed in google maps, image driving the river, that is apparently possible too.
I went for a lunch time bike ride today up past Chilfrome. I would imagine that this is the green and pleasant they talk about… given that it’s winter here, this isn’t too bad I don’t think.
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