Sunday Lunch...well, sandwiches anyhow!

[onfire]

We are gifted in living alongside the Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal and we have a small, ancient, beech woods within 1km of the house. We took a spin up there today for a little picnic and had a very relaxing time in our hammock made for two (well, three, as my wife is 18 weeks pregnant) and our two dogs spent a few hours truffling and chasing through the undergrowth ... right up until two illegal trail bikers (with not a number-plate between them) came ripping through the tranquillity. Thankfully they left after a circuit of our spot but they ruined it all the same :-(

We are about to have a Group Buy of DD Hammocks for my students in college but this hammock was a £3 jobby from the local carboot sale and did us just fine today!

 

[Clouston98]

Nice photos mate! Did the dogs find any truffles? Would love to have a dog that could truffle .

 

[1 shot willie]

Congratulations to you both!!

Shame the bikers ripped up your moment of peace.

Smashing pictures.

 

[Man of Tanith]

Woot!
Congratulations.
And get all the sleep you can now....

 

[weekender]

Woot!
Congratulations.
And get all the sleep you can now....

+1 to that. Get all the sleep you can now.....and congratulations.
I worked around your part of the world for a while, lovely area walked parts of the canal.

 

[Shewie]

Nice pics, looks like a nice relaxing time

What's the breed of your dog btw? My pal has one but he doesn't have a clue what breed it is. It does a great impression of Chewbacca every time somebody rings the doorbell.

 

[MT606]

''beech woods within 1km of the house'' They not use 'miles' across the border? btw is the white n fluffy just ordinary cotton wadding or is it impregnated (no pun intended) with anything ?

 

[Badger74]

Nice to get out and test stuff. I should do it more often.

Did you dye the coat yourself because my snow smock is the spitting image with the colour as yours.

 

[onfire]

Thanks guys.

So many questions - I hope I remember them all.

Shewie - the dog is a rescue and while we know it is a German Shepherd the other half is only a vague 'terrier' - he is a like a cuddly teddy bear with attitude!

MT606 - I cheated for ease of a swift cuppa and used cotton wool balls to get the Kelly Kettle going. It is plain cotton wool balls, they burn pretty quickly but that can be slowed by cupping both hands around it as the kindling takes. I don't have any experience impregnating cotton wool ... but at 38secs I reckon I hold the record for conception ;-)

Badger74 - the snow smock is a real Frankenstein. I got crazy with trying to 'mod' one a few years back and then kinda got bored and it hung up in work until I found it again this week. I dyed it green with dylon, then soaked it in 400 value tea bags for a few days, scrubbed patches of black and brown shoe polish into it and then (once dry) I began waxing it with Barbour reproofing wax (only I got bored before I did the sleeves lol). Before touching the colour I had sewn a central drawcord into the inside so it is snug rather than baggy ... it might become my favourite jacket now ... if I can finish waxing the arms!

 

[Badger74]

Very similar. I dyed mine antique grey, it became a patchy marine green and then I also used tea bags. I recognised the brown