Tuesday 18 March 2014

It's been a while......

Well it seems like forever since I last wrote a post, in fact I've been so busy I didn't even get my 'wordless Wednesday' post up last week and that takes no time at all!!

It's always the case of everything seems to come at once and you have all these carefully laid out plans which end up totally cocked up by one thing and another and then things over run and you don't have time to complete and then one thing runs into the next and you forget to breather and before you know it you lost a couple of weeks before you manage to accomplish anything at all......notice there was nowhere to breathe in that bit?? Yeah life was kind of like that for a couple of weeks...a little bit of a whirlwind with a lot of cursing and swearing but hopefully that is now all a thing of the past and things are looking up!!

Except the fact that I don't have any photos of what I have been up to so you will have to take my word for it and enjoy another excuse for me to show off Trojan!!


My Beautiful Trojan.
My Beautiful Trojan.
So what have I been up too?? Well I was offered a shed by someone down the allotments. A good size one that I thought would be perfect for the bee plot. However taking it down was a complete nightmare and what should have taken a couple of hours took sooooo much longer and left me without a roof so we couldn't put it straight up. Then of course I had work and shop duties so for two weeks had to hop, skip and jump around the shed pieces laid all over the bee plot. But this weekend I had time, managed to get some labour from family and re-construction commenced. Again what should have been a quick job wasn't so quick....not enough bolts...not the right size wood...nails which we missed when taking it apart...so all in all a full days work and still it wasn't finished...but at least it was up and stable.


So Sunday afternoon my Dad and I went to felt the roof....bought a good quality felt...plenty long enough...got the felt tacks...than I cut one piece too long which left the last piece to short. This is where I really want to scream!!!

Anyway after we put up the first two pieces I realised we could split the final piece down the middle and it would still give an overlap...finally something was going in my favour. So the felting got finished and now not only do I have a shed but one that won't leak although it isn't finished yet but the extras are something that can be done as and when I have a bit of spare time.

Obviously I then needed to transport stuff and I can tell you it is lovely to have my garden back again as it really was beginning to resemble a scrap yard. I now also have a greenhouse I can get into to sow seeds as does my Mum who was also storing some stuff for me.

Of course on top of all that the weather has been nice at times and I have managed to make a start on weeding and digging the allotment plot too and will be hoping to get some things planted this coming weekend. Oh it's all starting to come together and I am feeling happy about what I have achieved. Hey I even got a larger proportion of the bug hotel done.

All the warmer weather is making the bees very happy and busy too!!

So that's all I have for now...I will take lots of photos and share them over the next 3 or 4 days....and at least then you won't have to listen to me whinging any more.

What I haven't managed to do is keep up to date with everyone's blogs but I will hopefully be putting that right over the next few days.

Take care.



8 comments:

  1. You don't need an excuse to share your beautiful boy with us. I've done without a shed the whole time I've had an allotment up until I took on the new plot, it's certainly going to make a big difference to us, I'm sure your shed will too.

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    1. It certainly has Jo....makes things so much easier.

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  2. I want to see pictures of your bug hotel. Love the concept but haven't made one myself. Glad things are easing up for you.

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    1. I will post pictures soon tpals...although to be honest I think it would be classed more as a 'bug drop in centre' rather than a hotel....I've seen some of these fancy things people have built!!!

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  3. Always lovely to see Trojan and look forward to more pics soon. I'm just catching up with blog friends too and had to stop by to say 'hello'. The shed will be very useful now you've got it fixed up and ready to use.

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    1. Thanks for dropping by Linda, I think it's always lovely to see Trojan...just hope I don't bore everybody else...lol

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  4. Always good to see Trojan. Would the shed not have moved whole? We have had a few sheds and greenhouses moved around our site in that way. One greenhouse - without glass - arrived fully constructed on a car roof!!

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    1. We couldn't move the shed whole as it was 6ft across and with the other sheds and greenhouses in place a lot of the time we only had a 2ft gap to get through...even in bits it was a struggle at times!!. I carried my greenhouse down the road whole (minus the side glass) and it was so much easier. Of course if there had been room we would have found it wasn't possible anyway as the person who put is up had nailed the floor to railway sleepers buried into the ground before putting the sides up ....a 6ft by 10ft shed with 4 railway sleepers really would have been far too much weight I think. Oh well...you appreciate the more difficult tasks in life!!

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