Hello all. Home from the hill a while ago but I've been sorting photos and it's taken me ages...
Intended walking at Luss, but the car parking charges are still in force for 'the summer' - that's the best laugh I've had in ages....so I decided I wasn't forking out the 6 or 7 quid I'd have needed...
...and after taking a few pix, I headed up to the Rest and be Thankful, avoiding the two deer trotting along the middle of the road towards me just beyond Arrochar/Succoth and headed up Ben Donich. Chilly, rainy and foggy but had a good little walk. If I was in any danger of getting lost in the cloud, I'd have got rescued no probs, as these guys were out on manouevres....guns and everyfink...
One or two of them were struggling with getting down the scrambly bit - don't think they were enjoying their day out in the hills!
I'll stick some pix on the camera thread (looking forward to B'man's Arran ones) but this was the view south east down Loch Lomond, from Luss
Now I'll go and catch up with what you've all been doing
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lantana: Reggie is sensibly snoozing in the caravan. The stairs is only the boarding that has gone; lots of the wiring runs along the stairs which we need acess to tidy up and replace (or just ripping out).
Our master bedroom is going for the abandoned house with ages of decay affect.
Now; our master bedroom overlooks the outhouse flat concrete roof. Recently the neighbours five year old boy has taken to standing up there staring blankly into the garden obviously in awe of our fish pond... maybe. Aside from the whole privacy issue and risk of said small child landing on the patio (such a mess) I'm wondering what I can use the flat roof for. Some low maintenance pots that are too heavy to move but will create a bit of colour from the bedroom window.
A small conversation with the neighbour about their child I reckon Clari.....
I think your idea of pots or troughs, with some evergreens or grasses. If it's reasonably accessible, you could add some annuals. I don't expect you want anything needing too much titivating though. What sort of area is it? Perhaps even a green roof type of doodah
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Clari....I'm lost for words. . . . how you must long for all the work to be finished.
Wont you need lighter weight containers for the flat roof?
Fairy.....Watching the football, I saw it had been wet in Glasgow while sunny here. It's a pity your weather wasn't good as this is the last Sunday of long daylight for six months
Joyce: the roof can take the weight of a five year old and two grown men. I think something that won't blow off / get pushed off is my safest bet.
We've been working on the house since before last Christmas I'm rather getting used to it. I do miss having a sofa though.
Fairy: a conversation might be needed. For starts just to find out how he gets up there. I mean he has a pretty big trampoline in the garden BUT surely not?
Clari, I don't know what's wrong with parents nowadays. Don't they realise what he's doing? Of course, if he fell off and broke something, you'd have them giving you all kinds of grief...
Some planters you can weigh down, with plastic pots to go inside if you want a change now and again. If you don't wnat to bother with that or it's too tricky, how about Hebes, if there's enough sun, and you could plant early bulbs round them, and shove some nasturtium seeds in later for the summer? Wouldn't need much attention.
It was nice coming home Joyce - I came the scenic route by Helensburgh and it was gorgeous, but nearer home the heavens opened!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy; their outbuilding shares the same roof and yes I've heard his father telling him several times not to go near the edge so they know he's up there! We have a very well established wisteria along the wall which does make me worry a little about him getting over confident but as soon as it drops it leafs it'll be getting a good pruning.
All the children on this street play on the road: They're not feral but parents around here certainly don't worry about cotton wool. Not enough for you to call the NSPCC but it does put you on edge when you see them darting across the road. I did wonder about buying them all high visibility jackets!
It's no problem to get on the roof; either with a ladder or even stepping out of the bedroom window. It gets plenty of sun; in fact more than where I want to grow my vegetables! Perhaps I need a washing line with salad in baskets that I could pick from the window and rotate to get it recover!
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WE'VE RUN OUT OF THINGS TO PULL OFF THE HOUSE!!
tee hee at Henry hiding under the stairs. Bless'im.
Hello all. Home from the hill a while ago but I've been sorting photos and it's taken me ages...
Intended walking at Luss, but the car parking charges are still in force for 'the summer' - that's the best laugh I've had in ages....so I decided I wasn't forking out the 6 or 7 quid I'd have needed...
...and after taking a few pix, I headed up to the Rest and be Thankful, avoiding the two deer trotting along the middle of the road towards me just beyond Arrochar/Succoth
and headed up Ben Donich. Chilly, rainy and foggy but had a good little walk. If I was in any danger of getting lost in the cloud, I'd have got rescued no probs, as these guys were out on manouevres....guns and everyfink...
One or two of them were struggling with getting down the scrambly bit - don't think they were enjoying their day out in the hills!
I'll stick some pix on the camera thread (looking forward to B'man's Arran ones) but this was the view south east down Loch Lomond, from Luss
Now I'll go and catch up with what you've all been doing
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ooh err Clari....
It'll all be fine in the end....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lantana: Reggie is sensibly snoozing in the caravan. The stairs is only the boarding that has gone; lots of the wiring runs along the stairs which we need acess to tidy up and replace (or just ripping out).
Our master bedroom is going for the abandoned house with ages of decay affect.
Now; our master bedroom overlooks the outhouse flat concrete roof. Recently the neighbours five year old boy has taken to standing up there staring blankly into the garden obviously in awe of our fish pond... maybe. Aside from the whole privacy issue and risk of said small child landing on the patio (such a mess) I'm wondering what I can use the flat roof for. Some low maintenance pots that are too heavy to move but will create a bit of colour from the bedroom window.
Any suggestions?
A small conversation with the neighbour about their child I reckon Clari.....
I think your idea of pots or troughs, with some evergreens or grasses. If it's reasonably accessible, you could add some annuals. I don't expect you want anything needing too much titivating though. What sort of area is it? Perhaps even a green roof type of doodah
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Clari....I'm lost for words. . . . how you must long for all the work to be finished.
Wont you need lighter weight containers for the flat roof?
Fairy.....Watching the football, I saw it had been wet in Glasgow while sunny here. It's a pity your weather wasn't good as this is the last Sunday of long daylight for six months
Joyce: the roof can take the weight of a five year old and two grown men. I think something that won't blow off / get pushed off is my safest bet.
We've been working on the house since before last Christmas I'm rather getting used to it. I do miss having a sofa though.
Fairy: a conversation might be needed. For starts just to find out how he gets up there. I mean he has a pretty big trampoline in the garden BUT surely not?
Clari, I don't know what's wrong with parents nowadays. Don't they realise what he's doing? Of course, if he fell off and broke something, you'd have them giving you all kinds of grief...
Some planters you can weigh down, with plastic pots to go inside if you want a change now and again. If you don't wnat to bother with that or it's too tricky, how about Hebes, if there's enough sun, and you could plant early bulbs round them, and shove some nasturtium seeds in later for the summer? Wouldn't need much attention.
It was nice coming home Joyce - I came the scenic route by Helensburgh and it was gorgeous, but nearer home the heavens opened!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy; their outbuilding shares the same roof and yes I've heard his father telling him several times not to go near the edge so they know he's up there! We have a very well established wisteria along the wall which does make me worry a little about him getting over confident but as soon as it drops it leafs it'll be getting a good pruning.
All the children on this street play on the road: They're not feral but parents around here certainly don't worry about cotton wool. Not enough for you to call the NSPCC but it does put you on edge when you see them darting across the road. I did wonder about buying them all high visibility jackets!
It's no problem to get on the roof; either with a ladder or even stepping out of the bedroom window. It gets plenty of sun; in fact more than where I want to grow my vegetables! Perhaps I need a washing line with salad in baskets that I could pick from the window and rotate to get it recover!