LASSCO Three Pigeons in the snow
8th January 2007: Overnight sees a significant snowfall at Milton Common and The Chilterns. It is enough to halt work in the gardens. The villages look beautiful in the snow.
The facade of The Three Pigeons: the lack of snow on the roof betrays a woeful lack of insulation as the heat escapes during the improvements in the attic. The replacement of the decrepid water tanks, the cleaning out of years of detritus and dust and the replacement of some rotten rafters and purlins is underway. The attics are currently being re-insulated and boarded. Weather allowing, the entire pub will be repainted. The awful stippled render is nearly impossible to remove without damage to the brickwork so will be re-painted a more suitable colour.
The laying out of the Pub Garden and Tower Garden is under way. The Tower Garden is pegged out and the centre of the Pub Garden is still a mass of pallets still to be unpacked. With four inches of snow overnight work stops.
The Uffizi Boar, now lined up with a pair of gate-posts sits resolutely wih a faceful of snow.
The "Main Drive" ends with "The Octogan" centred by a sundial and backed by the stone Oculus window that used to look down on Threadneedle Street. It seems essential when laying out, to define your roads and give them names ... otherwise you're lost.
Lola and her sister Bola enjoy the snow enormously.
The facade of The Three Pigeons: the lack of snow on the roof betrays a woeful lack of insulation as the heat escapes during the improvements in the attic. The replacement of the decrepid water tanks, the cleaning out of years of detritus and dust and the replacement of some rotten rafters and purlins is underway. The attics are currently being re-insulated and boarded. Weather allowing, the entire pub will be repainted. The awful stippled render is nearly impossible to remove without damage to the brickwork so will be re-painted a more suitable colour.
The laying out of the Pub Garden and Tower Garden is under way. The Tower Garden is pegged out and the centre of the Pub Garden is still a mass of pallets still to be unpacked. With four inches of snow overnight work stops.
The Uffizi Boar, now lined up with a pair of gate-posts sits resolutely wih a faceful of snow.
The "Main Drive" ends with "The Octogan" centred by a sundial and backed by the stone Oculus window that used to look down on Threadneedle Street. It seems essential when laying out, to define your roads and give them names ... otherwise you're lost.
Lola and her sister Bola enjoy the snow enormously.
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