WE might all be confined to our homes just now, but that doesn’t mean our creativity must be locked up too. On the contrary, many are using this time to work on craft projects, refine their model railways, draw, paint, knit, sew or even just complete giant jigsaws.
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Reader Donald Anderson has set the bar high with his magical garden – photographed by his friend Andrew Gardner – but in fairness he began work well before lockdown began.
“I actually started it piecemeal a couple of years ago on the left hand side of my front garden,” he says. “First, I put some slabs down near the left window sitting area and then some log edging rolls.
I thought it looked like a fort and did some extras, gates, towers, ramparts, buildings, mainly from decking offcuts etc. Then, I gradually added the rest, Indian village, wagons in a circle and a cowtown.”
Donald sourced figures from the Barras, old shops and the internet to complete his display, and in recent days has been making repairs following windy weather and garden visits from foxes and squirrels.
He says: “I am 83, well ‘retired’ and had a deprived childhood in Coocaddens and Maryhill, but I am posh noo in Kelvingdale.
“It is, of course, intended for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But, I suppose a trick cyclist would say it is a compensation for all the things I missed as a wean.”
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