Rocket!

This looks like being the longest single post ever published in the Trees.  Even if mostly images.  

It's all about my 60th birthday present from work.  And what I did with it next.

Home. The box on the floor.

Twelve  Bags!

 Bag one:-

 Bag Two:-

 Bag Three:-

 Bag Four:-

 Bag Five:-

 Bag Six (Rocket Engines!):-

 Flip!

So. Six bags out of twelve used, on (huge) rocket stage built.
Bag Seven:-

 Bag 8:-

(I skipped some of the intermediary photos for that bag, I note).

Bag 9:-

 Bag 10:-

 Stage 2 Completed!  Fitting to Stage 1:-

Two stage completed, in ten bags!
Bag Eleven:-

 Stage 3 Completed!  Fitting to Stages 1 and 2...

 Stages 1-3 completed with Eleven bags.
Bag Twelve (and last):-

 CSM!

 With Escape Tower!

 The Saturn V complete...

 Dioramas...

 Lunar Lander - the Eagle has landed...

 Splashdown!

Ta-da!

The Apollo 11 mission took place in July 1969.  The model has 1969 pieces (see box).

For more about the mission, see the Wikipedia article here.

Street Party

Hot and sunny the whole time this year...

One Thousand and Ten

It was a Windy Day, apparently, ten years ago on this date. Radio 4 gave out weather warnings.  It was a Sunday.  And I began this Blog.  At the time I wrote:-

So anyway, welcome to The trees around Nunhead, for however long it lasts and whatever we discover.

One of the things I think I've discovered is that this site has become only peripherally about trees, and only slightly more about Nunhead.  A cursory look at the labels that have been used to describe the various posts indicates that there hasn't really been just one theme.  Currently the most used labels are:-

POEM

NUNHEAD

BBC

GUARDIAN

TREES

TOUR

RADIO 4

POLITICS

- so you might assume it has morphed into a literary and political Blog over time.  Well, maybe to some extent, but the sheer number of different labels suggests its content has been somewhat more diverse overall.

Not only is this the ten year anniversary of the first post (and thanks to our oldest for pointing out this was about to happen a few weeks ago), but also (drum roll)...

THIS IS THE THOUSANDTH POSTING!

That really does scare me.

It's a sunny day today, not windy at all. And there is really only one thing I can sensibly do to mark this event, and that is to post yet another picture of the back garden.   And a Tree.  In Nunhead.

Washing Machine

Why does our new washing machine play tunes?  Our CD players don't attempt to do the laundry...

Trees on Tour: Bakewell

A few weeks back I visited the town of Bakewell for the first time ever. It was a lovely sunny day, and this is what I saw...

This is a bakewell pudding (NOT tart!)  Incredibly sweet, must be eaten with custard.

Getting a Rocket

This is one of the other presents I received for my big birthday. And quite wonderful!  Thank you work people...

The box contains 12 bags of lego - half of which are for building the massive first stage.  There will be more posts on this, I'm sure...