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Managed a fair bit of progress over by the canal scene this month. I've added loads of junk and rubbish to it for that authentic British feel. Poured in a load of realistic water on top of that and finished up with some mod podge water ripples. The canal boat is a 3D print. Found a suitable file for one online and printed it out. I then spent ages painting it and added some accessories. Very fiddly little thing to do but I'm reasonably happy with the results. Next up was the office building that goes next to the canal. This took far longer than I expected but I'm very pleased with it so far. First I built the outside shell of the building and painted/ weathered etc. Then focused on interiors for each floor making sure they can be removed easily for future detailing or repair. Added some all important lighting using LED strip and some plastic to box it all in. Long way to go yet but things are starting to look more like a town now. Several more buildings left to do for this area plus street lights and endless other details.

*Project Update* GWR Steam Railmotor. We have received images of the first impressions off the tooling. The first Engineering Prototypes are being assembled and will be with us for review and testing very soon. See our dedicated project page for more details here https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/pg/144/GWR-Steam-Railmotor

And here is a loco, waiting to start the days work

A few photos from Scotland, with and without trains. Dumfries 16th Feb 90 C13960.jpg Glasgow Central Class 318 17th Feb 90 C13980.jpg Glasgow Central 156503 2nd March 91 C15637.jpg Pass of Killiecrankie 15th Oct 88 C11533.jpg Waterside Ayrshire up direction 18th Feb 90 C14013.jpg David

Local lads Anthony & Billy watching BBR #1 Manning Wardle shunt the goods yard on a quiet summer day. Bill is asking across the way to signalman Frank Peacock if he can visit the box & pull a lever ? or perhaps a footplate ride

The shape of things to come

We're currently in the process of getting Dad settled back into home living and making sure he is managing OK - safely being the main factor. To that end Jill stayed at his house on Friday night to monitor him and help where necessary and I did the same on Saturday. All seemed well, his only problem being getting in and out of the shower but until the strength in his leg improves that is off the agenda. Therefore last night we left him and came home at about ten o'clock so I'm about to go round and see him. For the next few evenings we will be cooking and eating at his house then on Friday we will be going away for the weekend after provisioning for him and a friend will be keeping an eye on him. My grammar school motto was, if I recall it correctly, "Non nobis solum sed toti mundo nati", which I seem to recall means not just for ourselves but for the whole world. We had to do Latin up to sixth form entry but rather than the whole class having lessons together, each year group was arranged into sets from alpha to gamma depending on how well individuals did. The same arrangement was in place for maths and I suppose it reflects on my interest levels that I was invariably in gamma Latin but alpha maths. When it came to O level GCEs I did so badly in the Latin mock exams that I wasn't even entered for the real GCE and the same went for RE. My form master, who was a brilliant physics teacher, remarked, "Aiming to be an RC priest are you David?" Have a good week people Dave

61207 has finished the journey, but will shortly be required to remove the stock to Nene sidings.

Back again. Grey, dull, cloudy and most significantly COLD here in South Derbyshire. Really CBA with work stuff today - so I'm off to make coffee and have breakfast pudding

Just to let folk know.................. This month I've sent over £500.00 to CRUK. This represents 10% of model sales on behalf of families, donations and contributions given by visitors to see LB. Totting up the 'books' last night, by the time more models are delivered this week, a further couple of hundred will be on its way to the charity. This represents (at last) a return to sending funds to CRUK, after the paralysis of Covid. May I please thank all those who've bought models, and donated? On Saturday, Robert Carroll delivered more boxes of various kits for me to sell. I'll be listing these in due course, but they comprise several Pro-Scale LNER types and DJH kits (including two for the last two 'Coronations'). And, more Highland 'Rivers'! The boxes currently fill our hallway. Mo went purple!

We had an Amazon package delivered this afternoon. I heard the driver knock the door, but when I opened the door, he was on the way back to the van, and the package had been left at the door. I've just looked at the tracking information, and there's a picture of the package at the door as proof of delivery. There's also a line under the photo saying "Tell us what you think about this photo". Well I think the photo is superbly composed, the colours are vibrant, it conveys its intended message brilliantly - but I have the feeling that that's not the kind of thing they really want to hear.

The high temperatures in BC and the west of Canada have just been the first item on the national TV news. Lytton, a town in the Fraser Canyon, has recorded the highest temperature ever in Canada at 46C. They may break it again tomorrow. We're forecast to have 41C here tomorrow in the Vancouver area.

Now I'm on the right computer, time for a couple of pictures.

My school had one claim to fame...the first Headmaster organised the early matches for the Baa Baas rugby team. They played at the school pitch (Greyfriars). The pitch is still there..the school isn't. Baz

Good morning everyone Another dull start to the day, the predicted overnight rain hasn’t materialised, but some is predicted to fall during the day! However, the weekend was predicted to be wet and it wasn’t, so I’m not going to hold my breath, I may pass out waiting for the rain! My first task of the day is to drop Sheila off at her Zumba class, after that I shall return home and start loading the car up with rubbish for my planned tip run. This will free up a bit of room in the cellar where all the off cuts are stored. Then, it it’s dry I shall do a bit more dead heading in the garden, but, if it IS raining, then I shall make a start fitting the floor in the area under the living room. Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. Brian

Greetings one and all I have finally looked out some DVDs to watch while Wimbledon is on TV. Is it really only two weeks? It will seem so much longer. I find that I have all five series of the American version of “Queer As Folk”. Series One comprises 22 episodes which should keep me quiet for a few hours. There will not be much viewing on Wednesday as I have a hospital appointment, comprising a nuclear med injection and a whole body bone scan. The thought of being radioactive for several hours is truly one with which to conjure. Flavio jerked some more memories yesterday when he mentioned Class 50s. Some friends of mine were ‘50-bashers’ in the mid 1980s. This means in essence that they travelled behind as many of the class as they could and as far as they could. At this time I had an annual season ticket which afforded some useful discounts. A favourite Sunday excursion was on a regular 50 diagram from Paddington to Hereford and back. Occasionally I was invited to join the party. Certain rituals were observed, though not by me. One was to lean out of a window with arm extended. This was known, I believe, as “bellowing” and struck me as particularly pointless. It was handy that when Network South East was created it extended as far as Exeter and much 50 mileage was accrued on the ‘mule’, as it became known. It was all a frighteningly long time ago! When I was writing about Dublin yesterday one thing slipped my mind. Among the clips that I found was one of a demonstration of making blueberry pancakes, served with strawberries on the side. It may have had nothing to do with the subject in hand but it sure was interesting! Yesterday I gathered enough strawberries from my jungle to make a fine garnish for my cornflakes. What a pity that I did not gather them before breakfast. Timing is everything. Best wishes to all Chris

Afternoon all, Lunch has been take at The crooked Billet and was well enjoyed. I stuck with something very simple for my main course in teh shape of cod and chips with mushy peas - all of which was as delectable as expected with some really good batter on the fish and properly mushy peas as well as their excellent chips which are a perfect example of how such thinsg should be - crisp pon the outside and very light inside. I've never heard teh term 'bellowing' before - it was known to us as 'windmilling' (because of the arm waving) and any culprits we caught were duly dealt with. as for trying to fiddle with PC butterfly valves such valves were either open or shut and from the early 1970s onwards they were modified to apply the brake instead of simply knocking off a few inches of vacuum leading the Driver to apply the brake. But even if there was a slight fall in vacuum that was it - the Rules required the driver to apply the brake and bring the train to a stand. But from the early '70s onwards fiddling with a modified valve would result ina full brake application. Hence anyone fiddling with such valves would (should) result in the train being stopped and i heard of one excursion where exactly that happened - several times - until the crew refused to go any further without a police presence on the train (various BTP officers were scraped up from somewhere to join at the next station). Always dodgy because once the valve has been opened, even if only partially, it cannot be simply reset as air will br flowing past it irto the vacuum system so the train needs to be at stand with the brakes applied, even worse in an airbrake system because iar compressed to at 70psi is trying to get past the valve in the opposite direction. Havea godo day folks and stay safe.

Overcast and misty here in North Somerset. 16mm of rain overnight. Nothing much that I can do here, but watch the garden dry out and wait for the covid test result. At present, I am amusing myself by scanning some John Vaughan b/w negatives acquired from a successful auction bid recently. I love his photos - such great compositions and wonderful quality. Why don't mine ever turn out like that? Anyway the auction terms included copyright to buyer, and so I believe I can post an example here - 47012 passes Pontrilas on May 3rd 1988. I would have loved to have bought more lots, but prices go silly these days; and even more so if the negative strips might include a 1970s shot of a hydraulic loco. And what happens to the negatives? Stuffed away in album sleeves where no one can see them, or cut into single images and sold at a profit on Ebay.

just one from yesterday, back to site to drop the ballast 20 hoppers dropping Stone on a severe gradient was fun on the downhill run, keeping it at 2mph was interesting to say the least! trafford park the rest of the week

Well, as the school was established in 1885, it rather pre-dates Nazi doctrine. Hopefully. A sunny but breezy 18c sur le rock this morning, predicto-guessed to be dry all week. Nice. We have a friend, his mum and an old customer (who the mum works for - he's a Dentist but no Rolls-Royce on the drive....) coming around today for garden trains, O gauge trains and a BBQ lunch. Looking forward to a day of pleasant company, chat and time wasting.

Greetings all from the boring borough. Another quiet did less than I hoped to weekend. Oh well. 3 day week this week. 6 days off and some escape planned. Belated happy Anniversary to Mr & Mrs Danemouth. Lytton BC has long been Canada's hot spot. The area is almost desert like. Since the opening of the Coquiholla highway in the 80s, there isn't that much there anymore. It was always a refuel point for us driving to the coast. My old school had a motto but all of its history was obliterated in 1979 when it was converted to a Logos christian school. 75 years of history went in a skip. Today the school is back to normal but only a K-6 instead of the original 1-9. At least they didn't flatten it for condos or yuppie housing in the 90s as was suggested. Enough of crawling down memory lane. Time for coffee. Enjoy the day.

Good moaning from a cloudy place, however it is not raining .......yet. the seaweed twirlers say it's going to rain soon for the rest of the day. The roofers have just arrived across the road. My plan for the morning is to head into the loft again and rewire the other relay to get the hall lights working. Whether or not that objective will be achieved remains to be seen. This afternoon we are off to Niort as Beth has an appointment. I may get an hour on the station. We shall see. All this talk of roads is interesting. I of course had to learn another definition, namely, IIRC"any road or highway to which the public have access, whether on payment or otherwise" this included pavements and meant that the Road Traffic Act applied over the whole thing and thus the need for driving licences, weight limits, Construction and Use regulations andvof course drink driving, etc. There were big arguments about such places as supermarket and pub car parks. The exceptions were some private riads that were closed for one day a year or more. This was used for a road between the Containerbase and the Freightliner terminal atvStourton in South Leeds. This was closed on Christmas day. This alowed them to run lorries that were above the weightblimit berween the two premises. On another tack it's interesting that Lytton, BC should be mentioned, I will be posting a photo taken there on my American thread, shortly. Regards to all. Jamie

Some Monday afternoon delight.

' morning afternoon all from red dragon land. Sunny - breakfast outside. That made a change and I will need no excuse to get out in the garden this afternoon! Toot on the flute so much better today than during the week. What it is, I do not know. Baffling! Third week back at the CVR, yesterday, after a bit of shunting and driving empty coaching stock from shed to station, I was ready to drive a couple of passenger trains. Fitt and Elfie still doing their stuff. Take care all and play safe. _________ Best wishes Polly

Clear Prop! Ah, many is the pint of fine ale that has been consumed in the Lytton Arms in Old Knebworth overlooking Lytton's pile. Such an excellent way of spending Friday lunch-times prior to POETS becoming the norm; An excellent pint of a guest ale and a large basket of Lytton Arm's chips dipped in lashings of horseradish - fantastic! Another bonus was that a friend and former work colleague was the landlord for a time before he unexpectedly and very quickly was called away from this mortal coil one day ....... It's all so very different these days (or at least it was the last time I visited; I haven't been able to afford a return visit and, of course, I POETED for the final time some time ago anyway so it's no longer a convenient destination anyway). I'm glad it's still going but it's just not like the good old days https://www.thelyttonarms.co.uk/ I too will be turning into the "Ready Brek" kid tomorrow in preparation for a whole body scan. Fasting on wakening, drinking nothing but water until it's done and then I'll have to keep away from small children (ie the grandson). One good thing is that it's highly unlikely that coming into contact with a pregnant women whilst still glowing will be a problem for me! In other news: Some success was obtained yesterday persuading an Arduino Mega board, a DC motor driver board and a WiFi module to fit neatly and snuggly into a plastic box. The addition of a couple of indicator LEDs and a slide switch should complete the manufacture of a DCC++ EX model railway controller. The user interface for the time being is a mobile phone app although a dedicated wireless device may be constructed at a later stage if I can be ar..... Anyway, desktop testing indicates that the whole ensemble functions perfectly for its intended purpose although what the purpose is cannot of course be discussed here! Amazing capability for such little cost Keep as well as you can and enjoy life as best as you can 'cos ultimately it will get a lot worse .... or maybe better. Well there's a philosophical point on which to ponder on a soggy Monday morning. Alan

Scaffolders have just appeared at Castle Bear to undo their handiwork - I didn't know they were coming today until I heard a large lorry outside as I was making the bed.....

Morning all. It is overcast here. I am not sure if it is misty or drizzle here, it is certainly damp outside. I don’t think I will be watching much tennis on television but any programmes I would be watching are not likely to be affected by broadcasts from Wimbledon anyway. Tony

Good morning all, Dull and dismal here and not damp yet but that is promised for later. It was very damp yesterday. Gave up any real interest in the round kickball game when I started grammar school and was introduced to rugby. Played that for 20 odd years and still love the game. Also played cricket for school and club and swum for the school and was briefly a spearchucker. My love of sport came from my dear old Dad who was a very keen sportsman but after losing half a leg and part of his arm muscle in 1943 was unable to participate so always encouraged me (without saying you must do this or that) Sport is a personal choice, feel free to love it or hate it. I love some sports but can't stand others - same with people actually. School motto (which I have only recently discovered) was Certare, petere, reperire, neque cedere. (According to Wikiwotsit this is a Latin translation of the famous phrase taken from Tennyson's poem "Ulysses", "To Strive, to Seek, to Find, and Not to Yield". Latin was taught at the school but I didn't do it and in my six years there cannot ever remember the motto being mentioned. Have a good one, Bob.

No, No - they're not Bribes They're a bonus for a job well done - the fact that they haven't actually done the job yet is a mere detail..... Amazon now employ professionals who get paid for playing "Knock down Ginger" (as we used to call it) - others may know it as "Knock up Ginger". I wonder what the outcome of a court case would be if someone claimed that the parcel wasn't safely delivered" as it's prone to theft when left on the doorstep? C-19 is a good excuse for Amazon to speed up their deliveries by adopting such techniques. It's ok if the driver steps away from the door and waits until the door is answered - and if not recovers the parcel for re-delivery (or gives it to a Neighbour) but it does seem that they're tending not to do this in many cases. In other news: Bear expects a visit from the Worktop Templater later today - all done with lasers and other high-tech gadgets, apparently. Not a job they'll want to get wrong, as a messed up lump of granite doesn't come cheap. My plans revolve around getting the panel above the F/F fitted - needs care to get it aligned correctly - and also not to drop it in the process.....

My nephew sent me some photos of the dog they will be getting next Saturday. The initial meeting went well and I assume they passed the home check! The dog looks a bit like a greyhound but with a Labrador face. I did notice I was sent the photos personally rather than on the family Whatsapp group. Tony

The road was a private road, and with a 'natural' surface , until it was adopted by the council in the late 1950s/early '60s (to save me digging out the exact date) and the residents had to pay the council to surface the road and provide pavements and surface water drains. I've got the receipt somewhere for the amount my parents had to pay but I know it was substantial and needed an extension to the mortgage - and ours was by no means the longest frontage on the road. As the original road, or rather our section of it, followed the course of the long established footpath the pavement on our side of the road, down to the corner at the bottom, exactly duplicates that as the land boundaries came up to the original course of the footpath; in fact where we are was at one time the loading area of a gravel pit and it extended to the boundary. Things are slightly different at the bottom end of our road as the original footpath crossed the road ours joins at an angle (also originally a private road) so the pavement obviously can't continue across the carriageway to the alleyway which is the continuation of the footpath on the opposite side of that road

Greetings all from Sidcup where it is grey and damp, which hasn't stopped someone nearby having some very noisy work done. Or maybe they're doing it themselves. Despite the suburbanisation of this area, there are still many footpaths to be found that can be traced to the maps of the 1870's when the area was very much the preserve of large houses with small estates. I regularly use one which largely survives and cuts off a corner of the main route to Bexley village; this even has a name, Penfold Lane, but is not wide enough in most places for wheeled traffic and has barriers to prevent people trying. It also has a handy footbridge across the railway. One end of it has disappeared in to the Royal Park housing estate. Other roads maintain old road courses; Burnt Oak Lane clearly ran around the edge of man fields a it has a series of right angle bends, which were all there in Victorian times; Rectory Lane is the old route to Foots Cray and retains a suitable country lane feel - single track with passing places (which strikes me as odd in suburbia). It was by-passed in the 18th century by Sidcup Hill, which was a turnpike, and this may explain how it has survived in that way. Also running past one of the larger estates in the area may have helped. Nearer to the A20, which by-passed Sidcup altogether in the 1930s is Watery Lane, which has a similar single track feel, but is slightly wider. Again this round along side the edge of the Frognal estate, where Queen Mary's Hospital and sheltered accommodation now are.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Arthur Itis was making a fuss this morning so Nurofen has been deployed. My street unlike most new town streets has a small kink in it and it lines up with an ancient old road. Looking at old maps it becomes obvious that the street was once part of the road. I live at the very end of the street where there is an equally old road at right angles that was lined by trees when the estate was built and the trees were retained. Sadly most of the trees were elms and were lost to Dutch Elm Disease.

The road where our daughter lives is not tarmac surfaced although technically adopted. It follows the line of the tramway built to convey stone between the two halves of the Peak Forest Canal whilst the Marple Aqueduct and 16-lock Marple Flight were built in the 1790s/1800s. There is still some evidence of its course at the nearby recreation ground and below Lock 10 where it crossed the route of the canal.

A bit cloudy here so far this morning. A delivery from a certain wine society is due this afternoon. We may be out so our delivery man will hide it somewhere for us to find on our return. Apparently some major kickball game is on tonight.. we will be avoiding it if we can. I rediscovsome dvds of "The Beiderbecke Affair" so these may be used to while away the hours tonight. Stay safe! Baz

YUK, is the only way to describe the weather outside this morning. Never mind, I've had a brilliant weekend, and so may it continue this week. Shopping is due at 8am, hence an early start, so I'd better head into the Bathroom and double check that its me in the mirror before throwing water over my good self. Have a good day one and all, stay safe and keep well.

Just to be awkward the pavement outside our front gate is also a footpath as it forms part of an ancient footpath route from the town to a nearby village. Oddly the stretch of pavement well under 100 yards long - which passes in front of our house is the only stretch of 20th century road etc construction which exactly aligns with the original footpath (that dates back to the 17th or 18th century). G'night all

Waiting passengers are they deemed to be busy - waiting! Re-take of an earlier picture but now with the backscene finished. Sort of blends in better and doesn't finish abruptly, it sort of flows and easy on the eye.....

Afternoon all Not much happening here due to pain in my knees and feet. Totally CBA

Quite correct @chrisf Bellowers were the bane of the enthusiast movenent and widely loathed by train crew, passengers (of the “genuine” variety) and lineside photographers. Quite apart from the extreme danger to life and limb from their antics - sometimes two or three of them would be at the same window with arms and heads extendwd and unable to be quickly withdrawn - some could drink for their national team, a few were fond of tweakung the “butterfly” (the red widget on the carriage-end which indicated where the communication cord had been pulled) to slightly apply the brakes and thereby make the locomotive work harder, and their interpretation of ticket validity didn’t always agree with the National Fares Manual. Quite how the railways got away with a couple of generations of “bellowing” without a string of serious incidents has yet to be explained. Regrettably window-bars and restricted-opening of toplights became necessary evils and still are today where Mk1 stock (in particular) and steam haulage are in use. On the positive side they were usually well informed long before we had internet or even mobile phones and could usually be relied upon to offer advice as to which diagram might “produce” the sought-after traction and / or which trip might travel via an unusual route.

Afternoon all, weather is brightening up after a dodgy start, much of the "G" word done plus cleaned all the windows outside, drove to big village for our monthly trip out, collected my prescription, with numbers rocketing round here we are again being cautious about mixing inside. The roads round here are often single track with no passing places either and definitely no paths, side walks or pavements, the local dual carriageway between Dundee and Aberdeen is referred to as the "motorway" which it isn't, just the A90, the plus side is 6 cars can constitute rush hour if it's moving and a traffic jam if it's not, luckily no-one seems to know we are here so rarely see tourists.

The Sun has come out and its getting very warm. I'm saying no more.

The last of the track got weathered. It's probably good to stop here before I over do it. It's always temping to do 'just a tiny bit more' and then regret it later. All the best, Dave

Grey, dull, cloudy, meetings.

Moorin awl. Inner Temple Hare, May be 5 hours sleep but in lots of short unsatisfactory bits, unable to find a comfortable position, forepaws complaining, it did rain during an awake period.. I agree with Coombe Barton's list, luckily I have Ben to take me for a walk. Much of Ben's long walk is bridleway, though various old maps indicate it was of the same importance as the road outside our house. There were two farms still on the longest of those bridleways till post WW2, on that bridleway entrance is an official council sign calling it a road, it has however no tarmac, but maybe half a dozen houses towards that end. Meanwhile if you continue on our road it turns into what's is officially classified as a green lane, an untarmacked but legal to vehicles road.. However it is tarmacked, and has maybe twenty houses on it. Of course I own the road outside my house, or at least the land under it, as do the farmers that own the land that is the bridleways. Whereas the council maintain? the road outside my house, the farmers are expected to maintain the bridleways.. Time I moved made breakfast, then got ready for work..

A bit more progress on my S&D coaches: I've got two more of these 6-wheelers to build, plus four bogie coaches, but I thought I'd bog down unless I got the first pair to a reasonably finished condition. I[ve also run out of wheels for the time being, so it was as good a time as ever to take a pause on the building. Over the weekend, then, they were primed and painted, and tonight I began lining them. I should probably line around the ventilators but I'll make a decision on that later. Al

Afternoon all. Is it afternoon already? It is indeed. The morning began earlier than planned. At 3am there was a procession of Neighbours (Upstairs) inbound from where ever they had been. That in itself has been uncommon since last year when the nightclubs closed. Feet on stairs usually wakes me and did so again. I hadn’t returned to the Land of Nod when the staccato beat of bed against wall preceded two syncopated renderings of the Love Symphony. I finally got back to sleep after matters quietened down. Only to be woken again before 5am, slightly before my alarm was due, by loud cheering and stamping of feet!!! Maybe after so many months of enforced curtailment to social activities they all felt a need to celebrate something It has been very quiet since with blinds and curtains still closed. There isn’t much to look see anyway. It’s still hazy and humid though the thick drizzle of earlier has ceased.

Hello again from Estuary-Land. I mentioned that some of the streets on the estate where I live follow ancient lanes and tracks. I've found a photograph of the road at the side of my property taken not long after the estate was built. This shows the trees that lined the original lane. The original road was known as Honeypot Lane and at one time went beyond the town centre but had been diverted when the railway was built and in fact crossed beneath Basildon Railway station. As you can see the road is not completely straight and in the distance it dropped down and moved to the right but still carried on northwards. My house is out of sight to the right, the council planting is a lot bigger now but nearly all of the trees have gone.

Good evening everyone Another day that has seen me spend the mot of it outside in the garden. Not only did I trim the 2 box topiary balls and hedge this morning, I also trimmed the hedge that belongs to the school at the back of our house. It’s more a small woodland corner and has holly, oak, sycamore, beech, hawthorn etc and attracts a lot of birds. But it’s right next to the school fence and often grows through it into the alley way at the black of our row of houses. There’s about 80ft of this hedge and I trimmed all of it to just above the height of the fence, which is 6ft tall. I also cut back the weeds that were growing at the base of the fence too! I’d just finished it all in time for dinner. After dinner I cleared away the clippings and filled 3 green wheelie bins until they were about 3/4 full. I’m the only one who seems to cut back the hedge and weeds in the alley way, but then, I think I use the alley way more than anyone else does! However, I does now mean I can now walk through without getting hit in the face, or having to duck under the overhanging branches etc whilst taking the wheelbarrow round to the front. Once I’d finished sweeping up the clippings, I then moved to the front of our house and trimmed the box hedge in the front garden. It’s just about knee high and approximately 10ft long, so didn’t take long to do. To be honest, I think I spent more time sweeping up all the clippings afterwards!