[morini]

Spent today demolishing old garden shed and building new fangled polycarbonate replacement. Demolishing bit went fine, I'm quite good at that - "have sledgehammer will travel"! Putting the new one up, not so smooth sailing. Read the instruction manual three times last night, had my plan of attack clear in my head and estimated about 2 - 2.5 hours, tops, to put it together. 8 hours later it's finally finished. Heavy drizzel for the last 2 hours as well but I'd just about got the roof on by then. Everything I took out of the old shed got a good soaking while sat on the lawn though :-(

Glad I'm finished that job, it's amazing how tiny little problems can lose you hours. The swear jar is full to the brim, and then some! The gin bottle is about to take a bloody good kicking.

Morinis tip for anyone else contemplating DIY'ing one of these polycard sheds - do it on a deathly still day. There was a slight, intermittent breeze today and it made life hell. Probably would have been ok if I had a second set of male hands, but I was working with Mrs M (bless her) and she doesn't have enough wing span to hold both sides at the same time. Until the corners are bracketed up these things are about as stable as jelly. Mrs M was a trooper though and we got it done.

Just need to arrange for someone to dispose of the old bits. It came down in 6 farily complete panels so I'm hoping I can ring a waste disposal company to pick it up in a pick up or something.