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….
Winchester Weekend 2017
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…
Axel de-hibernates.
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,…
…and she’s done
The Boiler Room has now had its second coat and matches the outside of the house. Sawtid!!
Slap it on Sand
Of all the little jobs that needed doing, the boiler room seems to have always dropped off the priority list. …
A harrowing experience
Notice all the trees in our now visible Ash Forest 🙂 Well now that Sand has Sooooo much time on her hands, she decided to de-Bramble the wall between the Garden and the First Field. As you can see, she has been going at full pelt. While raking the bank a few stones became dislodged and underneath some of them, she counted two Slowworms and a Lizard escaping for cover. I expect by the…