I did three lanes yesterday on the way home from the Tank Museum, the first two were very good, didn’t see too many people and so could dawdle along at my own pace and not distrube anyone. the third I was met with a rive with I chose not to cross. There are the three lanes I did, going right to left, the first one goes from Laurence of Arabia’s (T. E. Lawrence) house to Morton, then the second goes from no where to the same place and the thrid which is a byway rather than an unclassifided road just runs through some feilds and through the river Frome. Luckily i had my flip flops with me, so at the wet bit I could get out and open the gate and explore the wet area. Though I found the most shallow part of the river was above my knee and I […]
We’ve done a little re-arranging and planted a few bits in the garden this weekend. Bought a couple of shrubs, no idea what they are, they apparently looked pretty. Had a go at tile grouting the joints in that small patio area, this I am certain I did wrong and mostly made a mess. I shall make myself a icing piping bag arrangemnt with some grout and do it better another time. The rough area is flourishing nicely. Bottom right is my blackcurrent who’s nearly buried in wild strewberrys. Some bulbs went in (lower left) and my Gooseberry is growing well this year (lower right)
I went out the other evening to play in the floods, it had rained hard and caused some localised minor flooding of low lying roads. I failed to get any video or pictures along the way. But I did take these when I got home.
We picked up a couple of plants from a local garden centre and planted the acer: I used some of the bark that had come off the rings which I collected some rings of a fallen tree at the cricket pitch. Those were the rings I picked up back in January of 2022.
We took a walk along what was once the line from Maiden Newton to Bridport. They’ve resurfaced and opened the stretch from Toller to Powerstock Common as a foot path. I was impressed how the wire fence has lasted. The joint was nice and even with the rust it’s not going anywhere. The galvanising on the posts must be pretty good as they’re still solid in the ground. The workmans hut has to be fairly old judging by the brick work construction.
We had two helicopters come overhead pretty low and slow, probably just a military sight seeing exercise or what ever they do when they’ve got nothing better to be doing, which is most of the time I’d think. I think that these are Leonardo’s AW101 helicopter that I think are made in Yeovil, just a matter of a few miles north of here. https://helicopters.leonardo.com/en/products/aw101
I have been asked to repair an old gate hinge at the Church, were the pin is worn out I shall be replacing it with a bush that will be drilled and tapped and bolted to existing hinge mount. I was also asked to reduce this bird box hole down to attract smaller birds only.
We were driving back along the B3157 on Sunday, the view a lovely from Abbotsbury hill, we’ve not yet taken the time to go and explore over there yet. So these photos were only taken from in the car.
We had some snow during Wednesday 18th, this is what it looked like: By the time the minor snow fall was over it was looking like this: I went to collect my daughter in the Land Rover and wound up driving other people to more inaccessible places also, which was great fun. This morning the snow has not melted.
Abigail and I went to West Bay on Saturday in the Land Rover and climbed the top of the cliff on the eastern side for this view: We took the Land Rover as Hannah had her car and has gone to Northampton this weekend, did you spot the Land Rover in the car park? Na, thought not, as it’s only about 5px across..
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