Well with the snow, wind before the snow, and then after the snow I am surprised these arrived this month let alone the same day. I got two letters from the hospital that were sent a week apart that arrived today too. The second one said that the appointment in the first letter had been moved back a week.
Well it started snowing a week ago and it eventually stopped today at about 15.00. Last time I left the valley was Tuesday. All schools have been off, buses, ferries and aircraft have been cancelled too.
In all that time I did absolutely sod all hobby wise but I did clear the path a few times every day. Where I didn’t clear it we had 25cm (about 10 inches) of snow. The drifts up the track and along the roads were about twice that height.
We are classed as a category 3 road… we get done three days after it snows. Every year they turn up on the third or fourth day and end up in a ditch… this year was no different!!!
The other odd thing here is they grit but never put the plough blade down to ground level! This isn’t having a dig at the drivers as they do an amazing job. They are following orders. Snow like this and last year are unusual… last time was evidently 1993.
This was following the snow plough.
So because this is Shetland it is all meant to be gone by teatime tomorrow… 6°C and heavy rain. I took this photo at 15.15 today. I will take a comparison shot, same time tomorrow.
This evening I did manage to get the bases of these covered… when they are dry some of them will get snow added! As if I haven’t had enough of the bloody stuff…
Oh yeah because I am a total pillock I forgot about these…
I will flock them up tomorrow.
Nearly there….
I just need to paint the rims and I an going to call them done.
The snow came with a vengeance today. Put down a couple of inches in a short time. I took this photo before it came in. I really liked the effect on the water. This is an unedited image.
The fire festival was a bit windy and wet last night. I did take a video, but the wind caused me problems with the sound.
You will have to put up with a photo of the light up.
I will try and sort out the video and put it on YouTube.
Tonight was the first of the fire festivals, so I iwas off gallivanting for a bit. I decided to do something useful when I came back. As I had found my leaf punch yesterday I decided on leaves!
I basically used a brown paper envelope and threw loads of dipping inks on it in random patterns.
The other side has more yellow and orange and less green.
I tried the punch out when the paint dried and if I say so myself they look rather good. Yeah I know I am meant to use real leaves, but it has been raining a lot, it was pitch black and the wind was up.
I will show examples tomorrow.
Well we have officially had gales for nine days straight. The average for January is seven days of gales, however they are not normally together at the start. To be fair in 1993 there were 19 days of Gales.
On the 5th January the MV Braer ran aground off Sumburgh and released 87,000 tonnes of crude oil. She was carrying twice the amount as the Exon Valdes. Therefore people feared the worst. By some stroke of luck. The storm that added to the accident also saved us. By all account’s the motion of the waves and wind emulsified the oil.
We did get oiled beaches, but not what was expected.
Friends who lived up here smelled the oil on the wind 50 odd miles away. They were out checking theirs and their neighbours fuel supplies as they thought they had developed a leak.
I remember watching things unfold on the evening news.
You may be pleased that I made it back home in one piece. Swell coming back was a mere 4.5 metre compared to the 7.5 metre going down.
The kids all came with me and had great fun in Aberdeen’s shops.
I was so buggered with being sick so much, not sleeping and not eating/ drinking I couldn’t be arsed to walk 5 minutes to a model shop.
When I got home everything ached. So after a quick drink I went and sat in bed and promptly fell asleep and woke up at 15.30.
I really couldn’t be arsed to pick up a brush this evening. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
That Was what can be described as a bastard of a run south!
If I offer you a bag… Don’t take one!
Some painting! Yes indeed first day of new year and I painted. Okay totally forgot today was 1st January… so while I remember… I want to wish everyone health, wealth and happiness for the years ahead.
Here are the fruits of my labour so to speak…
I hadn’t really made many hobby plans for 2023, well apart from getting stuff painted and built. The one thing I did decide on was to give up printing for a bit, this is one thing I pretty much kept to. My new resin printer is still in the box and the only reason the FDM one was opened was to print my son a replica pipe pistol from Fallout.
So do I have any actual plans… not really. Try and people more should be a major one… hopefully that will come about.
As if I havent got enough to do! 😂
So after getting the Fallot RPG for Christmas I decided to dust off the game on the console… you know, for research purposes. I decided I didn’t want to just recreate the commonwealth around Boston in my games. Instead I decided to head North… Round about Chicago I thought…. so there I was following roads out of there and came across the town of Marengo… for some reason it is classed as a city, but with just over 7500 people, to me that is the same population as Lerwick.
Why Marengo… well it has a park, that has my surname. So many hours later I stopped ‘driving’ around on Google Maps.
Soo with a bit of Internet searching…. said family arrived I 1838, three years after the town was formed…. I fully intended to get some ideas down on paper…sadly never happened, I did however print off a few maps to help with the planning stage. Oh yeah… some of the houses would fit right into the Fallout aesthetic!
