Manic Kitty

We've been in the garden for 3 days now. The frame for half of the deck is built, we still have the other half to build, then we're having a month delay before we lay the actual decking.

As promised, photos:

These first four are taken from upstairs at the end of day one. The frame was together and Mum & Dad were just starting to dig the first of the foundations. The shed will be going on this side.

The other half of the garden. The deck is going over here too. This will be slightly smaller, but we'll be able to sit up here. The back of the garden will have trellis up to disguise the horrid fence, and the junk that the neighbours behind dump in their garden. Look at the lovely fence that we built the other week too. The little brick wall at the back is built from some of the rubble we dug up when digging the borders.

This area was grass until 2 weeks ago. Now after digging up the grass, and rubble, and putting some soil in (it was mainly sand in this area) I have a herb garden. No longer do I have pots and pots of herbs which I have to water. Now I can just leave them and they'll flourish.

This is the other corner of the garden, and the only one which had plants in when we moved in. It still has plants, but they're hidden by the honeysuckle. Come Autumn the Honeysuckle will get a hefty pruning and next year I'll train it to grow along the fence.

The end of day 3 and the right hand side of the frame is built, and we're starting to do the foundations for the left side. This photo shows how high up the deck will be. The garden is very steep, after 3 days standing on it my calves feel like I've climbed Ben Nevis. This photo shows how high up it is. They'll be plenty of storage (cat hideyholes) underneath. We're also putting a trellis railing on to stop (drunken/little) people falling off.

Finally these will be the views we'll get when we're sitting up there.
I'm actually seriously considering turning the shed into a crafty workspace, only in the summer though.