I bought four oak planks from Hexhamshire Hardwoods last year with the intention of cutting them into new slats for a garden bench where the wood had rotted but the metal ends were good.
So far I've cut 3 at 35mm wide and 3 at 55mm wide and they're pretty straight if I say so myself. I'm not used to working with wood and it's a different challenge to get them right. It's quality wood but a bit thicker so I'll also have to rebate the ends of the slats. #garden#WoodWorking
I have oak offcuts from cutting the planks into slats for the garden bench. These I'll donate to Alston men's shed.
They raise funds by making oak pins for traditional builders and farmers to repair the stone roofs of the houses and byres in the N Pennines. The pins help to hold the heavy stone panels in place on the roofs. I believe animal horn can also be used to make these pins. #HeritageSkills
This lamb is still unsteady on its feet. Maybe born yesterday.
The ewes with twins have broken through another bit of wall at the Binks, so they're all mixed up with the ewes with single lambs again. Not my fault this time. #BloodySheep#SheepOfMastodon
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That's the coverbands on, wide stones like through stones that help to bind the two faces of the wall. Not used everywhere in UK but there's lots of flaggy sandstone around here. Upright cope stones on these to finish. Should be done in an hour.
Finished and it took about an hour, I had a cup of tea as well. Some pinning to do in between the big cope stones. They were a struggle as its a height from the bottom of the drain up to the top of the wall and I'm not getting any younger.
@NatureMC thanks, yes, yet again I put it down to society promoting jobs or careers in line with images promoted in media. I don't think many Instagram influencers would wade about on a muddy hillside.
I want to find out more about degrowth and how it applies to ordinary people, so looking to follow people who have some knowledge of the subject. #degrowth
@violetmadder@markhburton@steadystatemcr thanks I get what you're saying, your pinned post is powerful, advocating community building. I'm doing that here as I have a (nowadays) rare skill that is useful to my farmer neighbours. I have been repairing their dry stone walls for nothing, so that I get involved in the local community.
They have looked at me like I have two heads at times and they insist I must accept money. So far, resisted and had tonnes of firewood and some steak in return.
@sarahdalgulls@Guy@thebaywindowgirl all this talk about sheep! We all need to get out more, I'm going for a walk. If I go past Craig's place there's Dutch Spotted and then up at Neville's, he's got Swaledales. Oh hang on....
So many rabbit holes to go down when it rains. TIL that W H Auden had his spark of creativity as a boy throwing stones down an abandoned mine shaft near Rookhope. His poems include 'Allendale' and Alston Moor'. Many others inspired by the post industrial abandoned mining landscape of Tynedale, Weardale and Teesdale. He had a map of Alston Moor pinned up in his shack when living in America. I also find the N Pennines to be an inspiration.