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  1. Ned

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    Could your two bright lights be Jupiter and Mars I wonder....... @ARMANDII -maybe you know :scratch:???
     
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      Well, it would depend on your geographical latitude, Tetters. Venus is the brightest object in the skies apart from the Sun and the Moon, but is only visible for around 200 days of the year. Mars isn't as bright and again can only been seen for around 200 days in the year. Jupiter the next brightest object in the skies next to Venus, and yet again will be seen for around 200 days in the year. Mars and Jupiter can be seen now low on the horizon in the early hours of the morning. There are no planets or stars that can be seen all year round except for the North Star/Pole Star in the Constellation Ursa Minor.:coffee::snorky:
       
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        Although not really interested in star gazing, I am curious to know what these are. The lower one is due south, the other slightly higher in the sky and a few degrees west of south. Do they sound like Venus and Jupiter?

        @ARMANDII when you write "visible for about 200 days in the year" would the main period be in summer or winter? They were both visible last night. Is it possible they were satellites?
         
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          Gone mad and purchased another set of garden lights at £1-99 each and they change colour :yay:...i think you know where the others have gone :heehee:... bin:whistle:

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            • Gail_68

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              NO NO NO got it all wrong [​IMG]....Blackpool illuminations [​IMG]

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                Over thirty years ago I had an armoured four core plus earth cable laid between the house and the garage before the concrete raft for the patio went down, with no idea what I was going to do with it.
                After I built our koi pool I decided I could use the cable to control garden lights.
                I installed a bank of four switches behind the curtains in the lounge, one controls a porch light on the back wall outside the lounge via an isolator on the ground floor power circuit. The other three are used to control any function I chose for anything connected to three power sockets in the garage. These have controlled a lot of lights in the garden for over thirty years.
                I admit there's a bit of "overkill here."
                There's two spotlights on the pergola trained on the pool.
                There's two porch lights on the side of the garage, one on the back of the shed and one on the side of the tea house.
                There's a 15w fluorescent on the ceiling of the tea-house that illuminates the opaque windows in the doors. Plus some fairy lights around the eves.
                There's 12v lamps in our two Japanese lanterns.
                There's a 30w low voltage lamp which illuminates the pagoda and another that is trained on the waterfall.
                The transformers for these are in the tea house.

                The tea-house has six ceiling downlighters. The shed and the garage have fluorescents and the pool filter room has a ceiling light and a fluorescent over the quarantine tank.
                There's a PIR on the back of the shed and fairy lights on the pool pergola.
                These are on the garage circuit and have their own switches.
                The garage and filter room, the shed and the tea-house each have their own isolators.

                We also have some solar lights.

                The consumer unit in the hall has a dedicated trip switch outlet for the garage, which is fed via a vintage pyro cable under the drive to an old fashioned switch which still uses fuse wire, but then it all goes through this quality RCCB.
                How many people don't actually regularly test them?

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                We don't have these lights on very often as "the street lights dim when we do."
                I do turn them all on before we go to bed each night, just to makes sure that the koi pool filter pump, air pump and UV are working and that the two table-top freezers we keep in the garage and my Budweiser fridge in the tea-house are all working. If the lights didn't come on it would mean that the whole garden circuit had tripped, but it has never happened so far.

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                • kazzawazza

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                  :wow: They look fab. What a lovely garden you have.
                   
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                    Absolutely beautiful mate and you sound as bad as my hubby where electric's are concerned...we did have electric lights at one stage but having a staffy who bull dozer in to them and getting broke besides...i changed to solar.:)
                     
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                      Thanks for the kind words.

                      Here's a tour. It's only a small garden, but we do our best. We ring the changes now and again.
                      All the construction and most of the hard landscaping, I did thirty years ago, "when I was working and had more time."



                       
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                        Your garden really is lovely. You can tell a lot of time and effort has been put into making it look like that. :)
                         
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                          Yes it does look nice DH, that's the kind of thing i am aiming for everything neat and tidy,

                          This will be my fourth year since i got it to lawn stage another couple of years i should have everything as i want it i understand a gardens never finished but i will have all my bare bones and just nice easy work potting and planting instead of potting planting and building.
                           
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                            Thank you again. It's also somewhere to relax in the shade on warm summer afternoons and indulge myself with one of my other hobbies and annoy the neighbours, (not really it's too far away).

                             
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                              Ive built such a place but its been used as a workshop for the time being at a later date i will finish it and make it a nice place to chill out in.
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