At the weekend Stephen, Phil and I put up another tunnel. This one will be referred to in future posts as Stephen’s Tunnel. He wanted to contribute to the collecting process but was unable to put one up in his own garden. He offered to buy a tunnel and for it to go up in my garden. I was thinking of one any way so this worked out for all of us. 🙂
As I had no room at the back of the garden, we put it up at the side of the house where I have a few display stands. The recent removal of my now grown kids trampoline had created space for it.
The proposed site for the tunnel.
Unpacking, note to self, don’t let Phil open the box for the next one! A knife and tunnel cover don’t mix 🙂
Smudge and Rufus giving advice and generally getting in the way.
Another note to self, don’t let Phil play with golf balls [don’t ask!]
Cover going on
Job done
No post with Stephen in it would be complete without the obligatory cup of coffee shot 🙂
All that was left to do was to shift a few of the collected trees into it to allow for more space for access into the 3 tunnels.
Bonsai Eejit 
took me a while to work out where that corner of your garden was !! you are going to have lots of watering to do !!! join the club 🙂
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Running out of corners Peter! back lawn is looking rather endangered 🙂
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watch out for windy nights…………I had one of those tunnels at the side of the house with breeze blocks pinning the base down all the way round, 4 guy ropes etc , – had……is the main word in that sentence as it ended up over the fence in a twisted mess in the middle of a stormy night…………sides of houses can channel the wind a bit too much !
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Hi Marcus, I have the corners of the frame staked into the ground about 2 feet in depth. It’s in a pretty sheltered spot, but, as you say, you never know !! I put a similar one up last year and it survived a few gales during the Winter. You are not the first person to point out about their experiences with flying tunnels, Peter Warren lost his last year. Thanks for the comment.
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Again please take note there are no pics of Ian working !!! Lol only joking it takes it out of you pushing the button on the camera no that’s not fair he handed out the coffee when Stephen and me had the tunnel built .cheers mate
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Ha! Lucky you got a bloody coffee birthday boy, chucking golf balls about the place wrecking the joint 🙂 At least I took photos, the hobbit left his in the garage when he arrived and it never saw the light of day lol.
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Looks like a good setup … coffee and all! 😉
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I looks good Steve thanks to Stephen and myself lol
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