A Full Day's Work

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The weather was perfect, the ground was cleared, the shed had arrived, and three men, myself, my brother Ben and a family friend, Peter, were prepared to put in some elbow exercise.

It had arrived a few days previously, and had sat patiently on the grass in its yellow plastic.

With the ground bearers down, and the first logs stacked, the shape of things to come is evident.

Log by log the shed comes together. The windows and doors fit perfectly into the pre-cut holes.

The tongue-and-groove roof boards needed to be nailed into place. By the end of the day we had run out of nails twice and my hand couldn't hold a hammer.

As the day ends, the floorboards are brought in one by one and pushed into place.

The next day the outside of the shed was treated with preservative, then the roof was boarded and felted. The day after that the floor was taken up and relaid. A second coat of preservative was applied. Finally, yesterday, two weeks and one day after the project was started, the finishing touches were put on the shed.

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