Winter Wonderland!

Even industrial scenes can take on a whole different look on a crisp but sunny Winters day with snow lying on the ground looking like a mystical Winter Wonderland! Maybe that is a bit far but it did seem that way at the Rocks By Rail Museum site today.

Much as it may have been pleasant to look at some things do not work well in freezing cold weather such as Betty the Sentinel who would start but refused to move out of the shed! 

Mr. D was substituted but needed his radiator filling first to stay cool - on a day like today. However, John obliged using a fire bucket as all the watering cans are locked away somewhere as it is not Summer. It all makes sense somewhere!

My day was to have been going back to vegetational butchery in the bone yard but obviously the weather had other ideas. There was no way I was venturing into that ice sheeted landscape!

So it was to be gabion basket/cage filling with hardcore coming from the upper part of the site where two tons of cement powder in bags had become water logged several years ago and had set into large bag bag shaped rocks! They may have been under some snow but it was a lot safer than in the bone yard.

I had to break up the cement rocks into smaller rocks so this lump hammer came in handy and saved me head butting them! It s very therapeutic smashing rocks up!

Filling a wheel barrow with the spolis of the rock bashing....

....these were then wheeled over to the edge pf the loading dock......

....and thrown over the edge, making sure Alex was clear first, before he put the rocks in a barrow....

.....and wheeled them up the quarry line.....

....before putting them into the gabion basket/cage.

We filled one of the gabions so just another two to go before the next three go on top and we start over again! Just another day at the Museum - just that today it looked like a Winter Wonderland!