A consultant colleague recently did me a favour. To express my gratitude to Steve, I gave him a bottle of wine and turned a bottle coaster to go with it.

I decided that we could do with a small garden shed to house garden tools. So, here is the result of my efforts, which involved stripping down several pallets to provide most of the wood I used (apart from the front and roof). After producing about 30 shiplap planks from the pallet wood, for the back and sides, it was a joy to cheat with TGV planks for the rest! I have put a 25mm hole in one of the sides, ready for a bird box to sit inside the shed – fingers crossed for a blue tits nest next year!