I feel lucky that the weather gave me a good excuse to come home today. I had two hours(!) sleep last night and spent a solid hour on the plot first thing sawing up a couple of big pallets (why is there no standard size? It would make all of those 'build a swishy storage couch from a pallet and a bit of blu-tack' you-tubes a lot easier to understand if I wasn't stood there, head cocked to one side, wondering how to apply this to that.) Anyway, I think I have a plan for some seating that I have not learnt from some dude in a baseball cap on the internet. I'm just waiting for a crowbar, and to do more sawing, and then some hammering and gluing and then some sanding. Could totally have it done by June, I reckon. The mix of wooden type things on the plot has proved to be a blessing rather than a curse in this case I think, because fingers crossed, that fence I was whining about in the pile of pallets could save me a lot of work in making the backrest. Proof will be in the pudding.
I also worked out that I don't have enough timber to build a shed. I am relieved, actually, since I was working out the cost of what I don't have - chipboard sheet for the floor, 2x4's to build a frame, concrete blocks or shed base, corrugated plastic for roof? All the screws, brackets.. a door, the cost of getting it all there - I think I'd be saving money from the most basic shed you could buy from, say, B&Q. But. A load of work to save money for what is essentially a discretionary project. Then, putting it together, sawing, measuring. No, it's better that this decision has been made for me. So, just a bay for my recycling bins and then some planters with the remaining timber and I will have got rid of a lot of it. I also am going to repurpose the ugly blue plastic bin, if I can, by turning it into a couple of big flowerpots. If only it weren't quite so blue. I might spray it, to look like one of those terracotta pots. Which means, if I have judged my skillset correctly, it will probably look like a streaky orange plastic bin. Its an allotment though, not Kew. Maybe I should leave it blue, ugly but perfectly functional.
Still got one large lidless, plastic composter to think of a solution for. The dalek type. Won't fit in a car. Maybe think of containers to attatch to the outsides for vertical planting? Hm. This is turning into stream of consciousness writing now. Time for a nap.
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