You would imagine that after a week of the white stuff then I might have got a bit sick of it… out in the wild – yes! In the kitchen on miniature bases… not so much, but as I really dislike doing bases then … I might have to sit on the fence
So I forgot to take the photo at 15.00 today to compare the snow… this was taken up my track though!
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.
Temperature has plummeted and the snow and wind have arrived with a vengeance. It is supposed to drop to -10°C overnight so we are in the will there, won’t there be school in the morning. Problem is three of us live on one side of the hills and the school is on the other. This causes problems with trying to second guess the weather over there.
Anyway I decided to do something that could be finished with my portable light if needs be.
I still need to work on it, I did shove some of the leaves down. I still need to get some tufts down and repaint the edge.
This is how the leaves came out…
I am quite pleased with how these came out.
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.
Or two in this case!
Yes I know Halloween was a good while ago, but I needed a nice simple project this evening!
In hindsight I wish I had done the pumpkins over three bases instead of two… but I didn’t! Once the basing gunk dries then I will see how effectively it has stuck to the base and stuck the pumpkins into it. Again I probably should have glued these to the base and then gunked around them.
Ahhh well, time will tell!
I will be adding patches of grass in places with some tufts and some maple leaves… sadly I don’t have any pumpkin leaves 🙂
Hopefully I will carry on tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
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!
