Going back to this post, I received my cheque from the insurance company, so we took a trip to Bunnings and spent $1,200 on materials to build a timber privacy screen in place of the old greenhouse windows that were previously dividing off the back courtyard area from the main garden. 
We bought 8 steel posts, 46 lengths of thin [...]

It’s finished! The shed is finally off the ground and in its home on top of the slab.

Built in only two days, here is what it looked like after they left on the first day:

The outside looks a little bit like a temporary builder’s cabin and desperately needs softening up with a stack of plants, but [...]

Ugh. What a horrible experience this shed has been for us. The pieces of the shed are still sitting on the ground outside and every time I go out there I look at it and feel like crying. I’ve paid $9,500 for a shed that I’m not getting an ounce of benefit from – in fact, [...]

Well, a month later and I am still without a shed. Hopefully next Tuesday the installers will come and start putting it up. Apparently they’ve been really busy. Maybe by Friday a huge shed might be standing in our backyard waiting to be filled with stuff.
What’s been happening the last 4 weeks? Well, after we [...]

Ding dong! The witch is dead!

With a lot of help from our neighbour (he owns a very powerful chainsaw), we spent 3 big days over the Easter long weekend working on demolishing the shed and it’s now in pieces in a big pile waiting to be cut into firewood for burning in our heater this winter. [...]

My latest purchase is a $39 wire and plastic greenhouse from Bunnings - already I know it’s going to be money well spent. As the weather down here in Tasmania is starting to get a little cooler as we head into Autumn, I found that the new lot of seeds I’d been trying to germinate were taking [...]

Tim fell over and rolled his ankle 5 minutes into the shed project. We were in the process of removing the pieces of furniture that are being stored in the existing shed. Here is the terrible injury. See the difference between the left and the right ankle?

Check out the swelling and the bruising. Poor thing.

At first I thought [...]

We have started the shed project by removing the ivy that was growing up the side of the existing shed.
Before:

During:

After day 1 of work:

We’ll eventually take those wooden weatherboards off one-by-one using a crow bar.

There’s been a bit happening lately.
Tim is back working with Australia Post here in Tasmania. After arriving in Tasmania, he was told that he would have little chance of working with them here because they have no turnover of staff. But last month there was an ad, he applied and got the job. It will [...]

Well, we currently have another set of guests staying with us for just a couple of days at the moment but prior to their arrival I managed to get the vegetable garden sorted out. I had problems with germinating seeds because birds kept stealing them. So I invested in some long garden stakes, a pack of [...]