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Post by Joyce on May 15, 2016 10:14:56 GMT
OH took a couple of photos of the 'in dad's memory' May tree yesterday. First year with any flowers - as RGSP warned they are a bit pinker than red - but still very pretty.
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Post by matthew on May 22, 2016 19:08:52 GMT
Some lovely fritallarias. Greenhouse a month ago. Rachel has uncovered a wall, I built 25 years ago. It's still standing. Guess wot. Big ones and little ones. Greenhouse last week, geraniums walking to the door... They've made it to the steps.
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Post by rgsp on May 30, 2016 10:47:16 GMT
The canoe hull on trestles in the lambing yard. It's the first time I've been able to see it side-on, and the polythene is to guard against bird crap, mainly bantam crap in fact.
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Post by 4wd on Jul 11, 2016 19:03:17 GMT
Abundant Foxy Gloves. This area was a small but very dense conifer plantation, when they cleared it in 2014 the bare ground was soon colonised by flowers and there's a lot of self-sown ash and Alder already. They have planted oak and some kind of willow in the wet spots.
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Post by rgsp on Jul 12, 2016 9:47:17 GMT
A couple of photographs of "Shelduck" completed.
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Post by Joyce on Jul 12, 2016 15:40:49 GMT
Love the foxies - going to seed round here now. and what a craft is Shelduck.
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Post by 4wd on Jul 15, 2016 9:26:59 GMT
Cattle Grid replacement. When this was first installed about 1975 - replacing a gate - we had to pay for half of it! It crossed my mind if they knew about that now they would try it again. Technically might have been able to claim half value of old one they have taken away to use elsewhere or sell! 4 metres is not considered wide enough for all traffic,so a 5 metre one going in. The road is only 3 metres wide though so seems a curious priority just now. They are wisely taking precautions to stop new sections being 'liberated'.
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Post by matthew on Jul 17, 2016 19:52:41 GMT
Some fuschias for Rose: This is strong, outdoor one. This is probably the one you have a cutting from. One of the 'Thumbs'. and one at the front of the house, a double which seems to survive quite happily. White hydrangea - pedigree unknown, grown from a snapped off cutting. Lady-in-red - cutting from a friend. The raised bed I've been working on today - the blues!
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Post by 4wd on Jul 28, 2016 17:11:04 GMT
Recently snapped Tidy little allotment. We used to walk past this as children and admire the Dahlias and Sweet Peas as well as rows of veg - it seems just the same XX years later. Field Scabious and big view. Looking across Ryedale towards Castle Howard and Malton (but you can't see it) Can anyone ID these eyecatching flowers? I'd call them Campanula or Bellflowers but looking those up on google doesn't find much quite right. They are almost white. As dusk fell they look almost spooky and unreal.
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Post by matthew on Jul 31, 2016 19:23:12 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Jul 31, 2016 20:41:10 GMT
Lines of old tractors. Some a bit familiar. I can still hear the screaming gearbox noise our E reg 880 used to make in High One ploughing gear. It had a Lamborne(?) cab on - which nicely amplified the din. We usually wore earmuffs so hearing seems to have survived. It was nice to drive in other ways though, Hydraulics were the weak spot and seemed to need frequent repairs - but nice engine. Livedrive was the big new thing where you put your foot on the clutch to stop main drive, and right at the bottom the PTO would clutch too. Not sure what Selectamatic meant. It may have had synchromesh on two highest gears so you could actually shift without almost stopping...with practice.
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Post by matthew on Aug 1, 2016 7:13:41 GMT
What amazed me was how small the cars and tractors were compared to today. The Austin 7 barely came to OH's waist and you'd have to fold yourself into the Mini. Origami for people? OH bought a new DB 880 in the late 1960s. Sat on it 24/7 contracting and it was paid for in 3 months! Warned not to get the model in the pic, the 990 as his tractor had more power. I remember sitting on the mudguard. I also remember driving it.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 18, 2016 17:34:39 GMT
Byland Abbey near Wass today Rievaulx from a different angle Ducks near Coxwold. These are one of my earliest memories as I was b orn just across the road. In a house obviously. Rather cheekily I went up the drive to grab a shot. It has changed quite a bit ... The house on the right was where Grandad and Nan lived - it was still very much a working farm and very old fashioned even for the 1960s. We lived at the little house just past the conifers - it was a basic two bed farm workers cottage but now looks quite smart. The brick building housed a waterwheel running on water from the duck dam - it used to power a sawmill and it ran most days. We weren't allowed in as the floors were about rotten even then, though it looks to have been refurbished externally as I remember broken doors and windows out. It was quite scary even just through the door you could see dark water surging under the floor. The grass on the left was Grandad's allotment plot where he mainly grew Dahlias and Sweet Peas. They seemed enormous and towered over our heads as children.
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Post by 4wd on Oct 31, 2016 7:49:35 GMT
Quality on this is a bit iffy because it's a gopro screengrab from video and it was a slow pan - but what a lovely spot - almost tempted to go back with proper camera but it's a bit out of the way. Cowhouse bank on road to Bransdale. There were some quite wild looking Limmys wandering about just out of scene to right.
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Post by 4wd on Nov 10, 2016 10:01:59 GMT
If the tops are white 3 times before Christmas a mild winter is expected ... they used to say. Twice so far.
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