Diary of a Shed - 17 July 2004 < Back    Next >    HOME
Another week of rain and crappy off-and-on weathery type gubbins, so the progress has been zero for seven days. Up until today that is, when I pulled on my big clod-hopper boots, strapped on my tool belt, stuck out my builder's arse and strutted down to the shed for a bit of a tinker with the roof!

The photos will tell you about the board (just one, but in two parts) I put up, but a lot of the day was spent nailing down everything that I'd forgotten to do before. I've a habit of doing as much as I can, then coming back to finish it off later. Unfortunately I'd missed out the 'finish it off later' part and when I added the last board a week ago I didn't remember to get up inside and over to nail the back roof on properly - it was only nailed with the minimum to keep it in place. This meant I've had to stretch as far as I can (quite far, I'm a bit tall) and get as many nails in as possible. If all else fails, at some point I have to clamber on it to put roof felt on, so I can do any missing nails then. And in fact that will probably get me acclimatised to the terror that is using the roof hook (for its proper purpose anyway - I still have it nailed to the shed roof to hold my boards in place when I lift them up!).

Sun (what's that?!) is forecast for tomorrow, so maybe more work, maybe not. In fact I've just checked (as I do 10 times a day) and it's changed from 'sunny' to 'sunny intervals' - typical. I guarantee you that it will be wazzing it down by mid-morning tomorrow!

Update:This is less than an hour later and it now says 'light showers' - the weather is coming in so fast we'll have penguins in the shed looking for shelter at this rate! Told you it would wazz!


Does this look familiar? Well this is last photo taken a week ago - just so you haven't forgotten what it looks like!
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