Is the autumn colour that good every year? It was lovely when I popped down to Droitwich last week. Still a lot of leaves on our beech tree, but I expect we'll have to start sweeping up soon, or the leaf drop will kill the lawn.
My office is freezing and I am sitting huddled by an electric fire. The rest of the building seems to be swelteringly hot, except for my boss's office which is also like an ice-box.
Well, it was good last year. In St Andrews this year, our liriodendron looked amazing until all the leaves dropped; but perhaps I was just noticing it in a valedictory sort of way. I am beginning to realise how many of the plants there I will miss, including the now absolutely huge and very beautiful olearia which you gave me.
Cold is better than hot. It is pleasantly brisk here and I went ut without a coat yesterday, with Livy, to look at kitchens at Magnet.
Do you have a view about a wearing ?course ?level ?whatever on the road, as requested in one of those hundreds of comments?
Generally speaking a well-compacted (that is compacted at optimum moisture content) unbound material can provide a very good running surface if the drainage is correct.
Also, if not too many HGVs, and avoiding churning the surface up (turning and braking manouevres).
You need to see how it behaves when there has been a frost; whether there is any heave. Also, if there was a prolonged period of snow, both very likely occurrences.
Going back and having another look, I can honestly say that the comments were not there when I looked at the pictures before. I would have remembered the flying refridgerator comment.
Random thoughts on track design (considering I haven't been to site they may all be irrelevant).
If it were a public road, the safety audit people would be demanding crash barriers on the outside of that bend, to stop folk careering down the hill.
I think that you will need to watch the structure of the inside of that bend carefully (whether bitmac surfaced or not), as most of the run off will be on that side, as it appears to be the uphill side. Even if surfaced, could undercut and allow moisture in underneath which would wreck structure. You need to go there when it is really hammering it down to see where the water goes. Probably OK as along as the runoff doesn't cross the track. If there is a lot of runoff, would possibly need concrete bottom to drainage channel; but obviously avoid doing that unless necessary, because of looks and expense. Is the bottom of drainage channel rock?
Need to make sure that vehicles don't over-run that edge, because that could deteriorate quickly owing to presence of larger amounts of water. Obviously there will be few occasions when you need to do anything other than drive in the centre of the track, but this will be less obvious in snowy weather.
Marker posts? With reflectors ideally, for night-time. Not necessary to paint them with black and white stripes, because you would know where to look for them.
Every family should have a roads engineer (and a plumber, a bricklayer, a plasterer and an electrician). It was hammering down on Monday and there was virtually no run-off on the drive. Roy has already got his eye on one place that may need a ditch; but there seems to be a reasonable one on the inner side. The idea of going over the edge was not one that had occurred. Humn.
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Is the autumn colour that good every year? It was lovely when I popped down to Droitwich last week. Still a lot of leaves on our beech tree, but I expect we'll have to start sweeping up soon, or the leaf drop will kill the lawn.
My office is freezing and I am sitting huddled by an electric fire. The rest of the building seems to be swelteringly hot, except for my boss's office which is also like an ice-box.
Well, it was good last year. In St Andrews this year, our liriodendron looked amazing until all the leaves dropped; but perhaps I was just noticing it in a valedictory sort of way. I am beginning to realise how many of the plants there I will miss, including the now absolutely huge and very beautiful olearia which you gave me.
Cold is better than hot. It is pleasantly brisk here and I went ut without a coat yesterday, with Livy, to look at kitchens at Magnet.
Do you have a view about a wearing ?course ?level ?whatever on the road, as requested in one of those hundreds of comments?
Missed the comment. Wearing course is now called surface course. Applies to top layer of bitmac road.
What do you want to know? Save me searching for comment.
And there I was expecting that my every carefully-crafted caption was being pored over by all.
I have been wondering whether the moraine alone will be a good enough surface course. But you would have to see it to comment, I suppose.
You can get the pictures on closer closeup if you click on the magnifying glass.
Generally speaking a well-compacted (that is compacted at optimum moisture content) unbound material can provide a very good running surface if the drainage is correct.
Also, if not too many HGVs, and avoiding churning the surface up (turning and braking manouevres).
You need to see how it behaves when there has been a frost; whether there is any heave. Also, if there was a prolonged period of snow, both very likely occurrences.
Going back and having another look, I can honestly say that the comments were not there when I looked at the pictures before. I would have remembered the flying refridgerator comment.
Random thoughts on track design (considering I haven't been to site they may all be irrelevant).
If it were a public road, the safety audit people would be demanding crash barriers on the outside of that bend, to stop folk careering down the hill.
I think that you will need to watch the structure of the inside of that bend carefully (whether bitmac surfaced or not), as most of the run off will be on that side, as it appears to be the uphill side. Even if surfaced, could undercut and allow moisture in underneath which would wreck structure. You need to go there when it is really hammering it down to see where the water goes. Probably OK as along as the runoff doesn't cross the track. If there is a lot of runoff, would possibly need concrete bottom to drainage channel; but obviously avoid doing that unless necessary, because of looks and expense. Is the bottom of drainage channel rock?
Need to make sure that vehicles don't over-run that edge, because that could deteriorate quickly owing to presence of larger amounts of water. Obviously there will be few occasions when you need to do anything other than drive in the centre of the track, but this will be less obvious in snowy weather.
Marker posts? With reflectors ideally, for night-time. Not necessary to paint them with black and white stripes, because you would know where to look for them.
Every family should have a roads engineer (and a plumber, a bricklayer, a plasterer and an electrician). It was hammering down on Monday and there was virtually no run-off on the drive. Roy has already got his eye on one place that may need a ditch; but there seems to be a reasonable one on the inner side. The idea of going over the edge was not one that had occurred. Humn.
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