Blues.....
A few months ago I picked up a couple of sets of deck lighting LEDs on a 2 for 1 sale. Or as the media like to call it BOGOF! (Buy One Get One Free) I've been meaning to get these things installed since September. However, it seems that every time I had a free moment it was chucking down with rain. Anyhoo, over the Christmas break the weather behaved itself long enough for me to take the drill to the deck and install a set of UFO landing lights. Dead simple to do really. Measure twice, drill once, lift the deck planking and tuck the wiring in as you go along. The whole process took about 4 hours over 2 afternoons. One of the reasons behind doing this is even when the security lights are on when coming home in the dark the step up to the deck outside the gate is in total darkness. No more stumbling in the night now. The power supply is all tucked up nicely in the shed and attached to a timer.
Blows....
There's been a lot of gale force winds in the UK this winter. This past Monday they came to huff and puff at the Dung Heap. The result? One of the only 2 remaining original fence posts snapped off at the base leaving the fence panels to flap about in the wind like a flapping about thing at a flapping convention. It was so bad that the metal brackets that hold the panels to the posts actually sheared off rather than pull the screws out.
What I'm going to have to do is dig down on the inside of the post, drop in a new post and concrete it in place, then bolt the 2 together. This is what I've done to several of the others along that side of the garden as it wasn't possible to reuse or relocate the existing spikes or concrete holes. You can see one of these double post supports on the left side of the pic above.
For the moment, until I can get a pair of posts and some postcrete, the fence has had to be supported and staked back into position.
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