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Drnick:
It pretty much sat that way until the May bank holiday weekends came about, But during those 2 weekends I set my sites on rebuilding the summer house, I didn't really take any photo's of that and somehow the damned thing would not go back together square, Base was level sitting on sleepers and the first piece went up vertical so the rest should have been OK. Meh, I do have a feeling that changes I made when I rebuilt the roof made it so it didn't sag in the way it was meant to. this meant it wouldn't go back into place correctly at all. I was damned if I was going to lose though so used some left over joists to basically force the top of the building into square and matching the frame of the roof.

After much harranging, shouting, screaming, jumping up and down and generally throwing tantrums I ended up with the following

(That roof really was no fun to get on)

You can see in the following picture just how far off of the frame the roof ended up in the back corner, But a bit of wood and some expanding foam soon sorted that out.

Look at all the lovely insulation that I put in to make sure that it is nice and warm in the colder 9 months of the Year in the UK :)

Drnick:
Then It was onto Running Electrics and Plasterboarding
In the next image you can just see the joist beam I used to square the top of the building, (Top of image) It was ultimately wedged in so tight that I just left it there (Oh and word of advice, Don't ever do what I did here with the electric cable, I should have drilled and ran through the uprights, It quite literally caused me a shock much later on when I installed a shelf and caught the cable with a screw).

Once I had semi completed the shed it was time to sort the area under the balcony and around what I now refer to as Ground Level zero.
Well first I was going to need some stairs to get into the garden. More Railway Sleepers to the rescue. As for the rest of the ground, we levelled off with some sand then lay weed supressant material and then put down about a tonne of white stone. (I figured may as well keep on with the railway siding theme

Cat acting as a pair of LED Lights in the garden :)

Another cat just wandering around, not bothered by building sites much these guys :)

Drnick:
I also got around to finishing off the Summer House and decided it wasn't going to get used for storage when I had a much better Idea for it, My little hideaway.

(I've recently upgraded to a 65" TV in the living room so am using a 46" as my main pc screen, I can safely say I nearly crapped myself when the full res version of the last image came up on the screen, I thought I had captured some ghost face killer looking into the shed). Turns out its just my own reflection in the smoked glass and it washed all colour/features out of my face. You can see very similar reflection in pic 2), So there we had it, I had completed what I had to do and so I Decided to light the firepit and celebrate completion of the mission (or so I thought).

Drnick:
Well come the August Bank holiday and I was at a bit of a loss as to what I could do for the weekend, I should have chosen to sleep, But instead I decided to put in a fire escape walkway to the garden. (This was the plant that was seeded way back with the cats walkway).

There is now a lump of wood that supports between the monolith and the bottom of the walkway. (No photo yet)

There is a railway sleeper that supports this part now (No photo yet)

Safe for cats, but not humans, lets sort that.

(Shows the railing installed) Fabulous Mr Fox (Aka Ballsy) seems to like it too.

Drnick:
We now fast forward to May Bank Holiday Weekend 2017,
What to do with the mess that is left of the garden?
Well firstly we went down the route of bagging and stacking as much as humanly possible and then many trips to the tip later I had an area clear enough and level enough to either patio or deck.

The wife dealt with this dilema too by finding someone who was getting rid of a bunch of decking used inside for a demonstration, so basically brand new unused deck which was about 5Mtrs x 3Mtrs of coverage, All my photos of this being built got wiped out without a backup so nothing to see here except completed decking :)

Here is the same decking approx 1 year later, only covered in snow that wasn't expected and shouldn't have been happening.

This snow was followed by rain, rain, rain and rain, So when it came to Easter this year I couldn't really work out in the garden because it was just too wet and claggy. I did get a few days out there though to try and remove some more of the rubbish and to try and sort the hill of earth (now referred to as Mount Moreclay). This gave me the following results.

(The massive stack of wood was ordered for works that were due to start Easter 2018)

Due to all the rain and the inability to do pretty much anything in the garden I decided to build a cat wall in the kitchen (We have a Double height vaulted ceiling open to the Living room area) So now I don't worry when the cats have a fight on the ledge behind the living room sofa.

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