When you go down to the woods today.... You dont expect to see THIS !!!

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Mon 16 Jun, 2014 3:06 pm

Imagine my surprise when the other day I was walking a neighbours dog around the local woods near West Park and I came across this...! God knows who left it here or why, or even how they got it here - its about 10' in diameter. I knew it was a geodesic dome of some kind as my aunties neighbour used to have a greenhouse shaped like it. I've since discovered that its apparently some kind of kiddies garden / activity toy, maybe someone got sick of it and dumped it in the woods rather than take it to the tip. They retail at £200 brand new but I'm not going to cart it home myself as some of the pieces were missing or broken. Beggars belief doesnt it what some people will just discard anywhere they like?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 16 Jun, 2014 10:21 pm

Once while out on a walk in the countryside, we came across an old television laid at the side of the path. It must have been at least half a mile from the nearest vehicular access let alone a road.If you remember those tellys, in the wooden box with the speaker alongside the screen, you'll know how much they weigh...Why someone chose to carry it all that way to dump it I'll never know!

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Tue 17 Jun, 2014 7:24 pm

I assume there isn't supposed to be a sculpture trail in the woods is there?It is the type of thing you find on them as well as kiddies toys.

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 1:04 am

raveydavey wrote: Once while out on a walk in the countryside, we came across an old television laid at the side of the path. It must have been at least half a mile from the nearest vehicular access let alone a road.If you remember those tellys, in the wooden box with the speaker alongside the screen, you'll know how much they weigh...Why someone chose to carry it all that way to dump it I'll never know! Trying to get a decent signal perhaps?

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 1:05 am

Steve Jones wrote: I assume there isn't supposed to be a sculpture trail in the woods is there?It is the type of thing you find on them as well as kiddies toys. Luckily for Jon he wasnt in the woods close to where you live Steve

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 5:25 am

I've heard of things where people take a full dining table / candlabra / crockery / cutlery etc to the top of Ben Nevis and other peaks just to take a photo of them dining in these way out locations. There was also something about someone doing the same with an ironing board..?! However I heard that once they'd taken their 'zany' snapshot they would quite often just discard these items on the mountain top... nice.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 2:31 pm

The strange thing is that someone would have to have put this together in order to dump it.I wondered if some kid had been using it as a type of den, as if you threw a cloth over it it woud make a decent little tent.

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 3:21 pm

Is it the remnants of one of the moon domes from the TV series Space 1999?

Post by **dsco** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 3:53 pm

cnosni wrote: Is it the remnants of one of the moon domes from the TV series Space 1999? I was going to suggest Blake's 7 what with the various Leeds locations in filming!

BarFly · Post by **BarFly** » Wed 18 Jun, 2014 8:22 pm

Steve Jones wrote: The strange thing is that someone would have to have put this together in order to dump it.I wondered if some kid had been using it as a type of den, as if you threw a cloth over it it woud make a decent little tent. I think it was likely a kid's den too. I remember building dens with turf-covered branches in Calverley wood but something like this would be a lot easier.Some acquaintances built a skateboard park in the woods, near one of the Bramhope Tunnel air shafts I think, and some others built a half-pipe in some woods near Wickes on the Ring road in Pudsey and I made a start with a friend on a small one in Calverley Wood at one point. I'm sure anyone coming across them would find it more than a little odd.