themonkeysdidit

OK, it’s not really part 1 as we’ve already bought the shed from B&Q, had it delivered (yes, amazingly they actually turned up this time) and worked out where it’s going to go (in the garden – a bit of a no brainer really). This is the first real work though, digging out the garden where the base is going to go.

We’re going for a concrete base as a fit and forget solution, which means a lot of hard work now, but no work later which sounds pretty good to me. So here it is, one hole (complete with shuttering timber frame in place – thank god it fits!) where some rather pleasant turf used to be.

In fact, I’m so impressed with my digging, here’s another shot from a slightly different angle:

And while we’re at it, check out all the turf I carefully removed:

As you may have guessed, I’m quite impressed with my handy work here! The next step is to compact the ground down, ready for the base layer of stones, it’s exciting this suburban living!

Of course, being slightly geeky, I couldn’t just spend an afternoon digging a hole with no technology to keep me motivated so I set up my camera on the tripod, teathered it to Aperture and created a small automator script to take a picture every 30s. These pictures were then imported into imovie and I created a small time lapse movie and uploaded it to you tube. Isn’t technology great!