We have been wallowing in junk - old pallets, left over fencing materials, posts and weatherboards, pieces of corugated iron, the old car cover, half a roll of something with tar on it, sheets of three layer plastic (like cardboard but not nearly so much fun), some old steel doors......... F has been scavenging scrap to build a new shed at the allotment.
It seems to have worked. The junk is gone and we have a new shed. The old shed has gone and raspberries are growing where the old shed used to be.
The new shed is OK - I have a bed at window level on the sunny side and can see most of the allotment from there. The compost heaps are a bit of a blot on my view but as long as F keeps wearing that cricket umpires hat in the garden I can usually keep track of her.
From the open door I can keep an eye on that excitable dog next door. She's motivated almost exclusively by some hefty throwing/fetching toy that her human keeps in their greenhouse. Unfortunately, until she's equipped with that toy she may be inclined the substitute in a cat. You can't be too sure.
Her human has built a frog pond. No frogs yet, but I can keep an eye on that from my new perch too.
Overall the new shed is smaller, better arranged, more weather-tight, has better natural light and fewer rats (well no rats so far).
F has promised me a cat-hammock, but she seems to be more focused on connecting up water butts at the moment. She needs to get her priorities right.
It seems to have worked. The junk is gone and we have a new shed. The old shed has gone and raspberries are growing where the old shed used to be.
The new shed is OK - I have a bed at window level on the sunny side and can see most of the allotment from there. The compost heaps are a bit of a blot on my view but as long as F keeps wearing that cricket umpires hat in the garden I can usually keep track of her.
From the open door I can keep an eye on that excitable dog next door. She's motivated almost exclusively by some hefty throwing/fetching toy that her human keeps in their greenhouse. Unfortunately, until she's equipped with that toy she may be inclined the substitute in a cat. You can't be too sure.
Her human has built a frog pond. No frogs yet, but I can keep an eye on that from my new perch too.
Overall the new shed is smaller, better arranged, more weather-tight, has better natural light and fewer rats (well no rats so far).
F has promised me a cat-hammock, but she seems to be more focused on connecting up water butts at the moment. She needs to get her priorities right.
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