Time to get a new shed. Badly needed. We knew that the stick holding the shed up would one day break. And the shed would topple over. Much better to take it down while it was still standing upright.
What a mess inside! Very embarrassing. In the end I threw everything in from the door, as it was such an uninviting place.
But the local wildlife loved the building. Mice were building nests somewhere in there, as they were biting holes in my gardening gloves, and anything else that was soft. There were plenty of very large spiders, spinning their webs. And a wasp nest was just beginning to form in the roof.
On the subject of gardening tools. A giant hoe, bought with last years birthday money, It looked much smaller, when shopping on the internet. Serious gardening, for sure. I wish I had acquired it when I owned an allotment. It would have made short work of all the giant weeds.
We bought a new shed, off the internet, and Patrick very kindly offered to take the old shed down, and then put the new shed together.
Patrick surveying the job ahead, and wearing a pair of my bright orange gardening gloves, but not the ones that had been chewed by mice. Patrick checked first.
Only the walls left now. Walter watching, and giving advice no doubt.
No wonder the old shed was toppling over. The base had rotted away on one side.
Sadly the wildlife lost their old home, and I hope the mice, the spiders and wasps all found new habitats. Just not in our new shed.
Our new shed. It now has a perspex window, plus a laminate bench on the inside, and lino on the floor. All small gardening tools are hanging from nails inside the building, and everything is spick and span. No clutter. Not yet anyway.
We have blocked off the bottom so that foxes and wild cats, do not make their homes there.
Now I know that Australians and New Zealanders will comment on the similarities of our shed, to an outside dunny. But I can assure you that in this country, this is a garden shed. Visitors from down under please take note.
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