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brilliant so lifelike, amazing talent! :O) good luck with the exhibitions. Hope you get lots and lots of sales, you deserve to do well it is an amazing talent you have for painting some lovely animals. :O)

lovely as always, that is such a beautiful face :O)

Very good painting as always

Hi Leigh, they look fantastic, as usual, don't know how you get them to look so lifelike, Derek.

They just go on getting better and better. What are you going to do with this one?

please keep us updated with progress

brilliantly simple, and simly brilliant

I know that, Leigh! I'm just looking forward to seeing it! ?

Excellent!

I hope you'll keep us posted on your progress, Leigh!

I really like the top one :0)

That will look fantastic, Leigh. I think the idea of sitting on it before it's set is a real inspiration!

Pam thats stunning..

If youget a minute Leigh google the Scottish village Port William, they have a bronze standing facing out to sea.......very realistic

Ithink I'd have to have a soft cushion Leigh.......
What a project!

Ls2...i just checked out Fonthill castle..it looks amazing...

love it Noseypotter...i find the old war time sea defences on the beach after storms. i think they filled sacks with concrete to build walls. the mix had lots of little pebbles in it. not the sea has bashed them for over 50 years some of the cement has washed away and now they are showing all the pebbles. i look forward to your creation..:-)

The top one looks like dog biscuits. :0)

Hi Leigh,
It's always good to read your posts and blogs because of all the original arty ideas. Love the sofa!

Hi Leigh, what an imagination you have, they look so realistic, Derek.

Reminds me of Henry Mercer a Victorian who constructed a mansion he called Fonthill Castle in Doylestown Pennsylvania totally out of hand mixed concrete and I mean totally, even the furniture..chairs, dressers, tables...etc. He even passed away in his bed made of concrete. I will also mention that the inner walls of the castle are decorated with thosands of decorative tile of his own making. Today, Fonthill Castle is a well visited a historic landmark in the USA. Mercer was quite an interesting Renaissance man in his time much like you are NP in our time I might say.

@Loosestrife2

Councils in the UK seem to actively encourage the removal of trees in urban area, esp if tall. Councils have their own parks departments who deal with all land management. If it was private property then it is 100% for the landowner to deal with unless it is deemed dangerous and the council cuts it down and then bills the owner!

Looks like taking those two trees out would send the " council's " yearly budget crashing down from the contractors bill. From the USA point of view (forgive, it's the only one I have in this consideration) the only way those trees would be removed would be either at your own expense after obtaining the proper allowances ( good luck) or at their expense only if a committee member's family were standing right under the tree while Bucky Beaver was gnawing away at its base.

If you think it's over 200 ft tall then your should be phoning the Guiness Book of Records, because the tallest tree in the UK is 211ft. (That was in 2011)
Personally, it looks to be about 70 ft tall to me but that's only a calculation based on the the things around it in the photo.

Some of those are edible and some aren't - sadly more of the later than the former but that's life!

I agree with Derek bracket fungus which eats away the heart wood. Very sad for you that they will have to go but you can't risk a tree of that size landing on the house as you'd have no house left!

Hi Leigh, it souns like bracket fungus, which eats away the heart wood of standing trees, which could fall at any time, the fruiting bodies can be seen in spring, summer, and autumn, then disappear, I would inform whoever owns the trees, what you have seen.
By the way, an easy way to measure the height of a tree, is to get a pencil, and a friend, stand far enough away from the tree, so that when you hold the pencil out at arms length, you can get the whole of the tree, looking the same length as the pencil, get your friend to stan at the base of the tree, keeping the bottom of the pencil in line with the base of the tree, lower the pencil to horizontal, then get your friend to walk out to where the top of the pencil met the ground, an stand still, then measure from the base of the tree, to where your friend is standing, that measurement is the height of the tree, Derek.

Do you think it is a Honey fungus NP?

Hi NP what sort of fungi did you have round the tree when it was there?

its winter don't worry, I don't know my science to well but the only way the fungus can decompose dead matter is if the conditions are warm and wet.