I suspect there is as much art to science in this and that you use any trick going depending on type of structure, local geology, the season and the climate. low angle is certainly one, but winter and summer sunrise/set are 90 degrees apart so a different view is possible. differential melting of the morning frost for just a short window sounds such a trick too. but also important are parch and crop marks; differential growth of a crop to show ploughed out ditches which will occur at some variable time according to the crop in question. in drought summers like 1976 and more recent years then dry and moist areas of grasslands show parch marks clearly (good for stone walls). I have a feeling that the Dorset Cursus most of which is invisible from the ground can best be seen from the air in the fresh plough soil with a chalky stripe for the bank and a dark stripe for the ditch against a speckled background.

other things just need an aeroplane whatever, such as the Nasca desert figures and Masada Roman forts to see them nicely. (actually a cable car does nicely for the later…) see http://ourpasthistory.com/Gallery/album90

good for a big laugh as it’s a ‘hairy’ experience…

I suspect there is as much art to science in this and that you use any trick going depending on type of structure, local geology, the season and the climate. low angle is certainly one, but winter and summer sunrise/set are 90 degrees apart so a different view is possible. differential melting of the morning frost for just a short window sounds such a trick too. but also important are parch and crop marks; differential growth of a crop to show ploughed out ditches which will occur at some variable time according to the crop in question. in drought summers like 1976 and more recent years then dry and moist areas of grasslands show parch marks clearly (good for stone walls). I have a feeling that the Dorset Cursus most of which is invisible from the ground can best be seen from the air in the fresh plough soil with a chalky stripe for the bank and a dark stripe for the ditch against a speckled background.

other things just need an aeroplane whatever, such as the Nasca desert figures and Masada Roman forts to see them nicely. (actually a cable car does nicely for the later…) see http://ourpasthistory.com/Gallery/album90

good for a big laugh as it’s a ‘hairy’ experience…

I suspect there is as much art to science in this and that you use any trick going depending on type of structure, local geology, the season and the climate. low angle is certainly one, but winter and summer sunrise/set are 90 degrees apart so a different view is possible. differential melting of the morning frost for just a short window sounds such a trick too. but also important are parch and crop marks; differential growth of a crop to show ploughed out ditches which will occur at some variable time according to the crop in question. in drought summers like 1976 and more recent years then dry and moist areas of grasslands show parch marks clearly (good for stone walls). I have a feeling that the Dorset Cursus most of which is invisible from the ground can best be seen from the air in the fresh plough soil with a chalky stripe for the bank and a dark stripe for the ditch against a speckled background.

other things just need an aeroplane whatever, such as the Nasca desert figures and Masada Roman forts to see them nicely. (actually a cable car does nicely for the later…) see http://ourpasthistory.com/Gallery/album90

good for a big laugh as it’s a ‘hairy’ experience…

I suspect there is as much art to science in this and that you use any trick going depending on type of structure, local geology, the season and the climate. low angle is certainly one, but winter and summer sunrise/set are 90 degrees apart so a different view is possible. differential melting of the morning frost for just a short window sounds such a trick too. but also important are parch and crop marks; differential growth of a crop to show ploughed out ditches which will occur at some variable time according to the crop in question. in drought summers like 1976 and more recent years then dry and moist areas of grasslands show parch marks clearly (good for stone walls). I have a feeling that the Dorset Cursus most of which is invisible from the ground can best be seen from the air in the fresh plough soil with a chalky stripe for the bank and a dark stripe for the ditch against a speckled background.

other things just need an aeroplane whatever, such as the Nasca desert figures and Masada Roman forts to see them nicely. (actually a cable car does nicely for the later…) see http://ourpasthistory.com/Gallery/album90

good for a big laugh as it’s a ‘hairy’ experience…

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Lyn, you beat me to it on the nerines with a few weeks off the forum. Anywa I had a nice surprise early in this October; I have a few hyacinths in various pots which are quite good at poping up each year otherwise being neglected, hovever, I also had 3 nerines in another pot which I rather lost track of and I don’t recall seeing at all last year thinking they were lost. But with the garden getting a bit dreary they showed their faces really well with even a fourth spike as a bonus. [yes, that is late spring campagnula flowers you can see in mid-October ~ there are still a few bells even now.]

Lyn, you beat me to it on the nerines with a few weeks off the forum. Anywa I had a nice surprise early in this October; I have a few hyacinths in various pots which are quite good at poping up each year otherwise being neglected, hovever, I also had 3 nerines in another pot which I rather lost track of and I don’t recall seeing at all last year thinking they were lost. But with the garden getting a bit dreary they showed their faces really well with even a fourth spike as a bonus. [yes, that is late spring campagnula flowers you can see in mid-October ~ there are still a few bells even now.]

Lyn, you beat me to it on the nerines with a few weeks off the forum. Anywa I had a nice surprise early in this October; I have a few hyacinths in various pots which are quite good at poping up each year otherwise being neglected, hovever, I also had 3 nerines in another pot which I rather lost track of and I don’t recall seeing at all last year thinking they were lost. But with the garden getting a bit dreary they showed their faces really well with even a fourth spike as a bonus. [yes, that is late spring campagnula flowers you can see in mid-October ~ there are still a few bells even now.]

Duro, have you dug up beneath the bluebells? Blow the seeds, just look at the number of little white corms – they grow like mini spuds. Once they’ve finished dying back, dig them up and only return a few of the corms and dispose of the rest via the most convenient or profitable means. As regards the mint, the soil is probably spent, try digging in some compost. Does it have enough sunlight? It’ll tolerate some shade, but doesn’t like full shade. Mint also like a reasonable degree of watering. Jenni, I was going to plant some foxgloves, but you’re putting me off! I have an outrage of Canterbury Bells – I adore them, but I’ve got something of a surplus of both white and blue – I need to move some around, particularly where I have a full mass of white ones against a cream coloured wall. They don’t show off too well, so need to dig a few out and introduce some of the blue ones, but still have masses of both to lose! My Canna flower spike has just started to open over the last couple of days and, today, I notice a second plant is producing a flower spike as well. At this time of year I could do with an Indian Summer to give them a chance!_________________

*Boudicca – Gets REALLY stroppy after a pint!*