Two walls

I have been watching these walls grow in Clifford Road for a few weeks just because I love bricks and find the construction of wall interesting, and I caught these at an interesting point.

The outer wall of yellow brick is complete except for the coping stones and this allows us to see that the hidden part of the second wall, an external wall of the house, is built with breeze blocks and the visible part with red brick.

Pink joy

My regular walks along Broughton Avenue are being brightened by this bold display of flowers. Individually they are pretty and combined they make an eye-catching display.

Kitchen Garden at Ham House

I will continue to post pictures of the Kitchen Garden at Ham House while it continues to look as good as this, and in October too.

And this was the bed right in front of me while I sat outside drinking a coffee from the Orangery Cafe.

I was only in Ham House for about twenty minutes and that was plenty of time to be refreshed and uplifted. It is why I am a member of National Trust.

Girl and boy on bench

I was pretty sure that I had captured this cute pair of children in Garthside before but I cannot find the photo again so either I did not take it or I indexed it incorrectly, which amounts to the same thing.

If they are in the collection somewhere I can justify another photo of them as they seem to have moved; Google Street View shows them under a large window in the centre of the house and now they are in a little alcove to the side. They look better in this location.

24 Stretton Road

In what has become something of a depressing pattern of identikit refurbishments, 24 Stretton Road now has grey windows, a grey front door and a paved front garden. 

Grave warning

Church Road was already a little disconcerting in the dark and now some deeply disturbing things are happening in the front garden of Troll House.

More grey windows

I first mentioned this redevelopment in Tideway Close back in July and since then most of the work done has been inside or at the back so there has not been much to see. That changed when the original white ones were replaced with grey ones.

The colour is not the only issue that I have with the windows, they also lack the horizontal glazing bars that the original ones had and I think that the new windows look stark as a result.

Pergola at Beaufort Court

I like pergolas because they add height and shape to an otherwise flat space and I think that these in Beaufort Court are very effective in doing that.

5 Ashfield Close extends

There is a lot going on at 5 Ashfield Close, which is at the end of a no-through-road off another no-through-road, the most obvious being the extension to the right.