2017 – Page 8 – Nick's Stuff

Sweet Vernal Grass with a bit of gate hanging.

It’s not even the end of April and we have Sweet Vernal Grass seed heads growing. Mr Robin has been sitting on the power lines for the last week or so and he’s still singing away. Does he have a mate yet is the question? We were going to put up the gate at the First Field entrance but found the hangers we got were just too big. Now off to B& Q to…

11/04/2017 Nick Tonkin

Country Life

Part two of clearing all the rocks and soil from the wall at the bottom of the Observatory Field – or the Meadow as it now seems to be called….

07/04/2017 Nick Tonkin

Astronomy

The Winchester Weekend is the astronomical equivalent of Ascot to horse racing or Le Mans to endurance car racing and Wimbledon to Tennis…You get the picture. Held once a year around Easter, it’s a three day event where we all camp out in the student accommodation at the Agricultural college at Sparsholt in Hampshire. The weekend starts on a Friday morning, where a number Kernow Astronomers all bundle into cars and head East. Well…

03/04/2017 Nick Tonkin

Country Life

Well what a beeeeyewtifull day The mound is probably a few days past its prime and a few of the daffodils are starting to dry up – but isn’t it looking good this year? The covers have been removed and all the grease protecting the rams has been removed from the back hoe and is now ready mounted on the back of Axel for some major groundworks. I forgot to take a before piccy,…