RTM tramways

I was intrigued by your 'Elephant Trails' reference and the way each sheep steps on exactly the same path as it's predecessor for weeks in a row and how they 'smell out' the trail and create the little 'sidings'.

Maybe new name for your layout should be Elephant Trail Tramways? After all, the tiny trains all follow each other on an identical trail. Maybe they can smell out the electrons on the track and they create sidings as well! It could be an homage to LGB, since they used to show an elephant trail picture in their catalogues: -

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Henri said:
Now that is an idea!!!! It certainly does make sense! Hmmmm...

I did not know LGB used an elephant in advertising. I knew about Tonka!
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No trouble Henri. They call your "Elephant Trails" by the very old name of 'Sheep Trods" in much of Northern England. Here's a picture so you can see if they are the same as those in the Netherlands ..

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Some are very old and deep and I think that they were even referred to by Shakespeare. So you could even use the name Sheep Trod Tramways. That gives it a good sound literary connection and avoids any unfortunate literary association with "Elephant Trails".

But I bet you knew that ;).
 
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trammayo said:
Don't let the rabbits near them - yew is poisonous.
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Trammayo surely you can entertain with an illustrated example of the morbid consequences of yew? ;)

Henri did you know that they used to keep the yew in walled English churchyards to stop the stock from nibbling it, but I think it was more likely to preserve their shape to allow better cropping for longbows.

In our garden the roe deer freely graze the yew, so much so that there is a nice neat line at deer stretch height that ruins their shape and drives the head gardener wild. Nevertheless the deer seem to thrive.

You do realise that yew can make some significant growth and is more used as a hedging material In larger gardens and can grow much more than you might anticipate.

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You might need a bigger head trimmer ;).
 
GNB said:
Trammayo surely you can entertain with an illustrated example of the morbid consequences of yew? ;)

Henri did you know that they used to keep the yew in walled English churchyards to stop the stock from nibbling it, but I think it was more likely to preserve their shape to allow better cropping for longbows.

In our garden the roe deer freely graze the yew, so much so that there is a nice neat line at deer stretch height that ruins their shape and drives the head gardener wild. Nevertheless the deer seem to thrive.

You do realise that yew can make some significant growth and is more used as a hedging material In larger gardens and can grow much more than you might anticipate.

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You might need a bigger head trimmer ;).
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Me entertain? I have heard people say "You ought to be on the stage - the next one out of town!".

Maigh Eo (Mayo) - the plain of the yew
 
I had the same theory when working in the cramped space (trying not to destroy other work recently done...), but it wasn't quite 'that' liquid... ;-)

And of course I was not 'dressed to the occasion' and SWMBO was watching, although pretending reading a book, all my moves... The night before I already had ruined a perfectly good shirt by tearing it to a lost nail in the fence... Haven't we all been there...
 
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