Not sure where the days went

I just realised I’d not been present on the blog for nearly a week. No idea why, just busy with life. What have we been doing?

Walking, knitting, gardening and a big tidy up project.  I’m not ready to reveal pictures of the tidy up yet as it’s not quite done, hopefully later today.

The tidy up involved a space between the neighbours fence and our garage.  When we moved in nearly four years ago there was a small shed.  It listed to one side due a the floor being rotten.  We used it for about 18 months whilst working on the house as other storage spaces (garage and outside weird covered space) were overwhelmed.  Then came the day when we finally emptied it.  It sat there for a while.  Then we dismantled it.  It sat there for a while.  Are we going to put up a new shed? It sat there…… you get the picture.  

Well the recent departure of the beloved motorcycle had freed up a lot of garage space and stuff from the outside space has slowly been moving.  We have plans for the small outside space, but that’s for a future post. The decision was that we really didn’t need a new shed, but what we needed was a wood store to house the bags of wood that were residing there.  Fast forward to Tuesday lunchtime. We were sat having just finished lunch when Peter jumps up and says right help me move the dismantled shed out!

Armed with a rough drawing he proceeded to turn the useable parts of the old shed into a wood store. I was along to hold, carry, sort and tidy up, labouring at its best. Whilst he was busy creating said store I cleared the area of weeds, rocks and accumulated rubbish.

By the end of Wednesday the store was installed, remaining bits of shed cut and bagged for burning. By the end of yesterday our rainwater barrel was moved, my stock of unused plant pots rehoused from the other side of the garden and I had another small border to plant up. All that remains now is to run the overflow pipe from the barrel to the border and install some bags of pea gravel which we will buy today. There is also space for the BBQ to live once we have a cover for it. 

A job well done, even if it took longer than I would have liked. This man will not be rushed!