"In the Night Garden"

As it was a fine night, I took these photos with my little Lumix camera yesterday. It's got a "photography for dummies" feature, where there is a choice of about twenty "pre-sets" for different situations where the camera determines the exposure.
This was on "Night Scene." All very well, but you have to keep the camera perfectly still for several seconds. (You learn by experience if you still can't be assed to read the instructions after three years!)

These lights are controlled by three switches behind the curtains in the lounge. They're connected to three sets of sockets in the garage via an armoured cable under the patio. So they're "multi-functional" depending on what I have plugged into each of the double sockets. Presently, I can turn both sets of the "fairy lights" on or off, or the pool spots, or the other lighting.

I've been experimating with some left-over coloured acetate from the work I did on one of my jukeboxes. One of my Japanese lanterns has a pink filter. I wasn't keen on the blue filter I put in the other one, so I've since changed it to yellow.
Really as my wife says, "I've naff all to do" ('cept take her out to lunch today).
All our patio pots have are on "pot movers" I bought recently at B&Q. It makes them easier to rotate or move out of the way (as there's nine of em!)



That "orange thing" is one of two "bird feeders on a stick" my wife insisted I bought. But they ignore them, as we've other feeders.



This was the first lamp I made. You can also see my pool waterfall which I don't turn on (from the switches in the lounge) as I've removed the pump. Although I can turn on a tap and add fresh water to the pool via it, though I prefer to add any water via a tap in the "fish room" connected to the filter discharge.



Yep! I know, the blue looks naff doesn't it?



There's a light in the tea-house just to illuminate the transluscent windows in the doors. Those "wisby bits" under the fairy lights are the wisteria flowers which aren't yet out.




Excuse the hoses hanging on the side of the "rabbit shed" (no rabbits since our daughter left home to train at Great Ormond Street, twenty years or so ago!)



That's a new Albertine rose growing up the trellis on the side of the garage. We liked them so much we've got three.



That "hump" in the path is the "bridge" under which the water returns from the filter in the garage, back into the pool. The lawn is still "recovering" from scarifying.

 

Jeepers
When WOO gets ideas we might all be in big trub

 

Come on then... "What's the big idea?"

 

With all my projects, I must admit I've met with very little resistance, from learning to play the saxophone after I'd taken early retirement as well as taking up golf. She has to Hoover round an alto and a tenor sitting on stands as well as my "leccy" piano (I'm on my fifth) in the front room. Then getting into jukeboxes over a year ago.

She did draw the line at one.

About ten years ago I wanted to build a "rill" from the back fence at the side of the tea-house down to the other side of the "bridge." The effect would have made it appear that the water flowed from a waterfall I'd build against the back fence down the rill and under the bridge into the pool.

I'd drawn up a plan involving two sumps at each end connected by a 4" pipe from the one next to the bridge on a slight fall below the level of the rill to the one at the other end with the rill falling in the other direction. A fall of about 4" inches in each direction would have been enough.
This would have meant I could get a good flow of water from a pump in the sump next to the teahouse supplying the waterfall. The pump would have only had to raise the water about two feet so I could get a good "head of water." The water would be returning from the bridge by gravity down the pipe,

"Too much water in the garden" she said.

 

Nice pics. mate........a complete new perspective.

I couldn't see Iggle Piggle,Macca Pacca or Upsidaisy............

You need to have small children to get that. :hehe:

 

very very sexy, thanks for sharing.

 

oh crikey rodders - my neice goes mad for them!!

Doghouse Riley - that looks wonderful! It makes my fairy lights look teeny tiny!

 

the garden looks gorgeous, I dont venture into my garden after dark.....might find something the dog left behind!

 

We often see a couple of hedgehogs on the patio if we turn on the lights around midnight. They and squirrels are the only things which can get under the side gate. Though a fox occasionally scales the six ft fences.

I once went out to put some rubbish in the bin around midnight. I walked up the drive towards the bins near our garage. I saw the shape of a hedgehog in the dark and approached the bins very carefully. Then as I got closer I realised the "hedgehog" was the outside wheel of the furthest wheelie bin.

 

A different view of your garden DR., and a very attractive one at that.

 

That looks beautiful DR ! Like an enchanted garden. I love it :luv: next time you go down there at night, tread very carefully, there may be fairies too at the bottom of your garden :wink:

 

Wow! and I don't know whether I'm more impressed with your garden or by the quality of modern digital cameras...