The Reluctant Gardener and a modeling project.

 

My wife was having a clean up of the outhouse and I was hovering around monitoring what she might throw away . She said "what are these bamboo skewers for?" - Oh for a modeling project ! I quickly retorted ! , having saved their life I thought I had better do something with them ! . A series of barricades I thought would do the trick , here we have the tools and the makings deployed in the hade - the dog has chosen the hottest bit of the garden to sit panting in !

The finish barriers , two large two small , of course I didn't use any measurements and with some trepidation I wondered if they would be in scale ! ? ...........

The finished products , the smaller two 

I gave them a wash of PVA glue then a couple of coats of paint and tarted the base up and they seem to match the 28mm Wofun quite well.

Getting a bit more work done on the garden , put a path in to the hen run and got my Victorian cast iron fencing erected which my wife has painted .

My neighbour who is our font of all gardening knowledge gave me a packet of 'Meadow Wildflowers' and suggested I mixed them into some dry sand and brush them into the brickwork - the results have been surprising ! , now to find out which are weeds and which 'Meadow Wildflowers' (there might be a crossover point between the two ?)

My wife wanted another post for a clothes line and so after about 50 years I finally got this cast iron sign post erected and painted in it's authentic colours . My father got it from somewhere (?) and it has had people tripping over it for years , it is very heavy and I needed to help put it up , it was cast in a local foundry which operated in Victorian times , so it must be about 100 years or more old . My other neighbour who has a extremally boring and correct garden I believe is aghast at it ! I think it is an interesting 'talking point' !