Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Progress...

While your reporter was away, the fencing has come along very nicely indeed and is nearly finished. The afternoon light was fantastic and the painters braved the chill :A bit less fantastic was the fact that earlier today the old fencing was being burnt rather than chopped up and given away to people in the neighbourhood needing fuel to heat their homes. If the wood is treated and harmful chemicals would escape if it were burnt, then surely a bonfire is just as bad ...The fire was soon left to smoulder away.

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Further progress on the fencing

The enclosure to the community garden continues to take shape even though sometimes the rainy weather has brought things to a standstill (the mallards love the quiet, though):
Workers are hard at it ...,
... most of the time, anyway ;)
The fence along the burn is as good as finished and looking great. It doesn't run quite straight to accommodated an established tree:Downstream from the same vantage point, however, the picture is a bit different:(Why does it look like people think a burn is just another rubbish dump?)
The taller fence along the lane is fast taking shape:
Sometimes it doesn't take much to command respect (above), but