Compact and Bijou

SomeBeans has been busy. As we are giving up half an allotment and concentrating on the one allotment, we have had to do a little shed building. We bought a new shed, as we aren't big into skip diving, and so can't easily get hold of the raw materials to build your traditional allotment shed. So, a flat pack shed doesn't have so much character, but it does the important stuff, like keeping rain out. Hopefully.

The current shed on the half allotment has some character and enough internal iron bracing for it to withstand hurricane force winds. Not quite so sure about the new one.

Old shed - no, I'm not stood on one leg, it really does lean like that

The new shed has had quite a hard life so far - being too big to fit in the car, and not having the time to hang around the allotment to have it delivered straight there, SomeBeans had to take it to pieces, and then reassemble it when it had been taken down to the plot. So, the boards were prised off, the floor cut in half, the sides taken to pieces, carefully labelled, and then put back together again. Hopefully at some point in 2009 it will be dry enough to put some preservative on it. But I'm not holding my breath.

So, behold - a shed we can actually stand in, if not quite large enough for a garden party...

New shed - not quite such a character, but room to swing a cat. At least a relatively patient cat, who doesn't mind a few cracks round the head

We're just waiting for the spring winds, and fully expect to go down the plot one day and see a pair of stripey stockings with ruby slippers at the end sticking out from under the shed.

Thank you SomeBeans!