A Thing of Beauty

The shed roof is finally finished, thanks to Bill the Builder, who also added new soffits and finials and replumbed the water butt to a more convenient place and then repaired the floor to the other shed as well. My contribution was to apply a bit of weatherproofing to the wooden bits, which took up most of the weekend. Anyway, three coats of Ronseal later and I was rather pleased with the final result. 
I fetched the camera to take a photo of it for posterity. 
The only thing that could make it look more beautiful, I thought, would be the addition of a couple of whippets in the snap. 
I looked round for them. Silly me .. they were far too busy harvesting the alpine strawberries to be interested in posing next to a garden shed!

Covering up

There comes a point where you just have to face the fact that you aren't going to get round

to sorting out some projects within a reasonable amount of time.

I was a bit embarrassed when I realised that the tarpaulin thrown hastily over the shed

roof when a leak was discovered had actually been there for over a year and a half.

On the plus side, the neighbourhood cats didn't seem to like walking on it let alone

doing any sunbathing. On the minus side, that leak wasn't getting fixed ... and after a while that blue tarp does become a bit of an eyesore.

What to do? Well I realised that realistically, even if I found the time to fix the

problem, I probably wasn't going to do a great job of it - more likely an

enthusiastic bodge which might be okay in the short term but was unlikely to last.

So, dear reader, I called in Bill (no relation to Bob) the Builder.

Archie and Angel agreed not to eat him on condition he shared his

slice of cake during a tea break,

They are still waiting for him to keep his side of the bargain.

He has done a brilliant job of fitting a corrugated roof - love those silvery stud thingys.

Looks like a very butch roof now.

In fact the only thing that could make it look even nicer is the addition of two whippets ...