Shed Seven - the reunion

Two weeks ago we constructed a beautiful hardstanding for the Friends of Fishponds Wood's new tool shed.

This was flatpack building at its very best and earlybirds Max, Katie and I got some bonus hill reps by carrying the various pieces from the van.

With only one decent screwdriver, and several people holding the pieces together, we had extra hands available for other bonus jobs:

• move all the cracked willow across from the boggy woodland ready to be used as tool shed camouflage
• redistribute leftover sand from the hardstanding into sandbags and load into the van
• edge and sweep the cycle path

In between these jobs, we kept popping back to see how the shed was progressing and clever Rich had decided that it worked best if we just followed the instructions in the correct order (boring!).

We all enjoyed that the brand of the shed was called 'Asgard' but Rich definitely did not feel like the God of Thunder as he was effectively crouched inside a metal box whilst Max hit the outside with a rubber mallet.

We can reshape the metal that doesn't fit!

Rich then switched places and sat on the shed to shift the roof piece onto place.

With most of the parts now fitted together, the team were drilling and screwing as fast as they could.

Screw it up before we screw it up!

Team Gover lifted the roof on and then the rain guard was fitted, very fancy. Finally we bolted the doors on and there were tiny squeals of delight when we closed them and everything fitted perfectly.

The shed easily fitted seven GG Yorkies inside, including two very tall ones. Most of the team departed to go on to another task whilst Amy and I finished up. I completed the vital task of bolting the shed into the stone whilst Amy completed the equally crucial job is disguising it with all the cracked willow.

What shed??

Job done.