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Hi Shaun some very nice pictures of your progress, perhaps you should rename Goathland to Gotham and call yourself Batman. All the best Adrian

Teloxys Aristata or Sea Foam, trees to you and me. Early on in the year I was looking at the trees on Brasted and thought that they were looking a bit rough and ready, I looked at the price of replacing them with ready made till I saw that for the quantity that would be required a lottery win of quite a size would be needed. So being a tight wad (read Mrs W Station) I decided to grow my own, a purchase of Teloxys Aristata seeds from this link provided me with a forest in a packet for about £4 https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_1235a_teloxys_aristata_seeds Now comes the boring bit, plant seeds in a large pot filled with free draining soil and wait 6months. ......................................... 6months have now passed and your seeds will now look like this if you are lucky. Harvest and hang them up to dry for a week or so. Spray matt brown The next part is to plant the trees, which I did by cutting all the old foliage off the existing trees leaving just the trunk and some branches, and then placing the new branches over the old trunks to form the new trees. The foliage was made by first spraying the top of the trees with firm hold hair laquer then a base coat of 2mm fibre were sieved on, next another spray of laquer and a final layer of coarse turf was applied by hand and another coat of laquer to secure. You need a sunny spot for the seeds as they are a desert plant and can suffer from dampening. And some pictures of the finished trees, I wanted it to look like neglected scrubby woodland. Happy gardening. All the best Adrian.

Brasted.

Hi Derek, I wish you well and hope that you are feeling fitter soon. All the best Adrian.

Hi, now that is a very good question and one that I have been asking myself. What to do next answers on a £5 note care of Mrs W. Station. All the best Adrian.

Some dirty pictures of Ewer Street, well what were you expecting pictures of . All the best Adrian.

A Indian summers evening at Brasted Station, with the North Downs warming in the evening sunshine. Not long before Alderson and Sons start delivering the winter supplies of coal to the surrounding villages .

Westerham goods shed picking up the empties.

Hi, another great post full of information and some great shots of Mantles Wood. All the best Adrian.

Hi Chris, if using card you might want to consider using a balancing sheet on the back with something of a similar thickness as used on the front, this will counteract any tendency to bowing. All the best Adrian.

Westerham Station.

Hi Andy, best of luck with the new project, on page two already. all the best Adrian.

Westerham, fill up with water then we will be off.

Happy Birthday David, and thanks for for your daily posts. All the best Adrian.

Over the bridge at Brasted.

That is just awful news. My thoughts are with his family. Mick will be much missed by all his friends on RMweb. Adrian.

Hi, I know which view I prefer, gone forever when it could have been a preserved line. All the best Adrian. Roughly the same view of what was.

Westerham, Friday afternoon that's the crane put away for another week.

Hi Chris.

Ewer Street.Coming home to be fed and watered.

The list of dangerous fun things that you could do when young in the fifties is endless. Melting lead soldiers over your mums gas stove in a saucepan to make nothing in particular, banger guns, bangers in toy aircraft, bangers in drains anything else that you could do with bangers Wells cannon were the best bangers. A thunderflash put under a upturned metal dustbin, you would be surprised how high that can go. Jetex motors. Mixing two different types of toilet cleaner to see what happens. It's a wonder any of us are still here to tell the tale. All the best Adrian. Ps don't try any of this at home children.

Summers evening at Brasted Station.

Hi Al, are those tyres 650 x 16 you can't get them anywhere, they would be just the right size for my lightweight. All the best Adrian.

Hi Al, thats brilliant. All the best Adrian.