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Valerie Roney

☝️I am currently still in stare out the window mode my language center continues to be mostly offline. But when I get tired of trees and ravens I will shift my eyes indoors to something natural and lyrical.

I pretty much judge all movies based on the quality of their sky - which Ghibli movies do you think have the best sky?
#GhibliMarathon #joinIn
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Badgardener

Garden project from a couple of years ago, which is getting a bit of a revamp. I had a few bits of large, squarish stone knocking about - and no clients' gardens to immediately use them in - so dropped a sunken seating area into my own garden.

The obvious firepit is an old lorry wheel that got washed up on the beach, and rolled/dragged half a mile back to the car. We have so many firepit devices, though, that I turned it into a planter for orange/red coloured flowers (none of the photos of which survived a PC failure).

The chickens have largely turned it into a fort, so I'm planning a surprise diversion (mainly sweetcorn at the other end of the garden) to reclaim it. This may be an ongoing battle of wills.

A picture looking down into a trapezoid-shaped sunken area, about 18 inches deep and lined with stone walls. The tops of the walls are large flat stones, for sitting on. In one corner (far right), a big clump of Hart's tongue ferns is growing out of the wall, and in the near left corner an old lorry wheel has been set on its side and filled with soil. The base of the area is filled with brown pea gravel.
A picture of the same area, but taken from another side. Essentially, the photo is of the same things.
#gardening#drystone#landscaping
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Badgardener

It’s the weekend, so more odd contraptions.

A rack for seedling pots that I made for my wife. It’s designed to be propped vertically in the greenhouse, to make the most of space - but cobbled together so that whatever angle it’s at, the pots stay upright. Bit like the seats on a Ferris wheel.

The whole thing is on a pair of wheels, so that at hardening-off time (we’re still supposed to do that, right?), it can be trundled out and propped against a sunny wall, without everything falling out.

A contraption I made to hold small (9cm) pots for seedlings. It’s a rectangular frame with, set within it, a number of elongated basket arrangements each holding five pots. Further description in following photos. The rack is propped up vertically in the greenhouse, against the wall of the attached shed. A duck egg blue door, into the shed part, is to the left.
The rack described in the previous photo. In this picture, the rack is leant at a 45 degree angle against the blue door. Each basket arrangement remains in an upright position, as they are held by a pin at each end to the frame, which act as an axle. In this way, whatever angle the rack is propped at, the pots remain upright.
The same rack as previously, laid flat on the ground.
#gardening#seedlings#woodworking
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Russ Sharek

And now, after an overwhelming week, I'd like to invite you to put down the doomscroll and enjoy some time with the kind people who come together for the #CircusInPlace video chat:

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The clowns will have a camera on. You're not expected to...though we always love to see some friendly faces!

As a reminder, please respect anyone's request for a subject change. We all have different tender spots. <3

@lonelinesscorps
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Badgardener

The workshop I built for my wife after the first lockdown, mainly to stop her from taking over mine(!)

I’d always been intrigued by the idea of stitching a shed and greenhouse together, so knocked this up. The idea is that the greenhouse captures solar heat in the winter to help heat the workshop - it seems to work, and the shed is very heavily insulated with polystyrene collected off the local beach over a summer and put through a garden shredder.

With a small radiator, the temperature gets up to about 22C very quickly, even with outside temperatures around zero. When they’re about 8-10C and upwards, no heating required.

Built mainly out of free stuff (greenhouse, roof tiles, much of the frame, insulation, copper ridge, windows, door).

Please ignore the oil tank. We inherited it and can’t afford to change systems.

A picture of a greenhouse attached to a shed. The greenhouse is a standard 8 feet by 6 feet aluminium-framed model, but a purpose-built shed has been built in line with it so that the roofs line up. The roof of the shed is covered with brown slates and a copper ridge, and there is a skylight in the middle. Internally, the shed and greenhouse are separated by a duck egg blue door. The sides of the shed are wooden. The photo is taken diagonally from one side. In the foreground is a green oil tank, and in the background the white side elevation of next door’s house.
The inside of the shed described in the first photo. The shed is a workshop, with a workbench running transversely along the back and down one side under the skylight. Underneath, on the left, is a rack system containing pieces of coloured glass. In the middle of the bench, two clamps are attached to a block of wood. On the back wall is a window, with a red frame. A chair is parked in the middle. Mostly, it’s a good, chaotic mess.
The inside of the shed greenhouse, taken from the greenhouse section of the entrance to the shed. It’s a wooden wall, with patchwork panels oriented vertically and in the middle, a duck egg blue door, half-glazed. A slabbed path runs up the middle, with growing beds of soil on either side. Plastic pots and other detritus are scattered around.
#shed#greenhouse#woodworking
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Valerie Roney

Ok! @lonelinesscorps
Who wants to do a watch party of the blanket fort episodes from Community sometime this weekend? I can do Sat or Sunday, late aft or early eve.

Organize under #blanketFortToots

[edit: paused til next weekend due to holiday and the fact I am too crabby to human, also need to source viewing links as not on Netflix for me]

#lonelinessCorps #watchParty #community #joinIn #blanketFort

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