....I bought an outdoor led spotlight....it has an app (nothing good in the world comes without an app anymore - no app, no good. Check your partner - if they don't have an app for them, swap them in for a newer model) that allows it to have different effects at different times. So I had it running last night inside the conservatory with a multi-coloured fade going on (you have to test these things). Brill - such fun. Far better than a set of outdoor fairylights....
There's a house on the next street over who leaves all his outside lights on all night. He uses some sort of 1000W LED bulbs in them and lights up our bedroom lovely. Â Maybe it's a new trend, outdoor growlights? Keep your lawn nice and green and p**s off all your neighbours in one go.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Our porch light only goes on if one or both of us is due home after dark and will need illumination to see the keyhole (handily signalling to burglars that the house may be empty), or if weâre expecting a visitor or delivery after dark ... unlikely at this time of year đ Next door has a streetlight at their front boundary so our drive is well illuminated.Â
A couple of houses across the rise have security lights and we track the batsâ journey from the caves and over the hill and down to the marshes by watching them triggering the lights to come on đÂ
it wasnât until opposite had their big trees taken down last week that we knew their back garden is festooned with fairy lights ... can you not do something @Fairygirl ?
We have a feeling they may be doing up/titivating the place and then putting it on the market ... I know they were thinking about it ... anyone want a nice house with nice neighbours and a garden âwith potentialâ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My neighbours of a few months put one of those motion activated (by anything within a half mile) football stadium spotlights in their back garden pointing directly across to my back garden.
I was like a rabbit in the headlights for weeks  still forget occasionally when out for a slug hunt...........
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
As a mean Scot, I like the fact that my neighbour has a light at the back door which is motion activated, so I never really have mine on as it's near enough for us to set it off. I'll need to make sure the new owners [if they're ever able to move in] keep up the practise.... When I had to take youngest fairylet to work, it involved a route which borders the nearby dam. There's a house on the little rise there, which is illuminated all day and night - right round the base of the roof line. Due to the differing hours fairylet worked, I was able to see that was the case. Must have cost a fortune.Â
I heard the neighbours were right troublemakers @Dovefromabove... I can't really complain about people using my lights either.....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No street lights here, everyone has shutters so no light leaking from windows and only one house round the corner does Xmas lights.  OH does too but I've got him down to fewer by not replacing the ones that die.
Works for me, tho I will string fairy lights about when I eventually get my new seating area and pergola but only when we're out there and not a lot cos of all the insects and night birds and bats we're doing our best to attract.
Today's job - one of them - is to persuade the swifts nesting in the "cave" that they can fly in an out thru the window hole over the door whose cover I have unblocked. Biblical rain being forecast for tomorrow now and I want to be able to close the door which has been open for weeks now.
The lights around our summerhouse are only switched on during the Christmas period or in summer in the evening when we have guests and weâre sitting outside.Â
I used to belong to another garden forum where every other picture seemed to feature garden lights, resin Buddhas, multi-coloured lizard or dragonfly wall ornaments etc. For each posting there was an immediate chorus of responses âwowâ, âamaaaazingâ, âso beautifulâ etc. leaving me to think I was clearly out of step. I then had the temerity to venture the opinion that in my garden I prefer to let the plants take centre stage and commenting on the merits of diversity of opinion. I also got an immediate response and it was entirely hostile, the gist of it being that if I was so clever why didnât I post photos of my garden. Sod that. I left.
How sad @BenCotto to be focused only on the man-made, which changes hardly at all, when you could be surrounded by plants, changing all the time. Surely much of the enjoyment in a garden is the surprise of change.
Speaking of which I managed to get two strawberries to eat today!Â
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
We have two plain grey gnomes here which OH rescued from his parents' garden. I have them tucked away on some steps down from the terrace on the assumption that they can then have an accident.... Â
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it wasnât until opposite had their big trees taken down last week that we knew their back garden is festooned with fairy lights ... can you not do something @Fairygirl ?
We have a feeling they may be doing up/titivating the place and then putting it on the market ... I know they were thinking about it ... anyone want a nice house with nice neighbours and a garden âwith potentialâ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was like a rabbit in the headlights for weeks Â
still forget occasionally when out for a slug hunt...........
When I had to take youngest fairylet to work, it involved a route which borders the nearby dam. There's a house on the little rise there, which is illuminated all day and night - right round the base of the roof line. Due to the differing hours fairylet worked, I was able to see that was the case. Must have cost a fortune.Â
I heard the neighbours were right troublemakers @Dovefromabove...
I can't really complain about people using my lights either.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Works for me, tho I will string fairy lights about when I eventually get my new seating area and pergola but only when we're out there and not a lot cos of all the insects and night birds and bats we're doing our best to attract.
Today's job - one of them - is to persuade the swifts nesting in the "cave" that they can fly in an out thru the window hole over the door whose cover I have unblocked. Biblical rain being forecast for tomorrow now and I want to be able to close the door which has been open for weeks now.
Speaking of which I managed to get two strawberries to eat today!Â
But then I wouldn't have a gnome either.