{"id":1277,"date":"2021-07-11T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2021-07-11T18:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:16:23","slug":"a-couple-of-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"A couple of projects."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-11-768x1024.png?resize=720%2C960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1278\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>I&#8217;m delighted that he liked it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &#8211; fingers crossed for a blue tits nest next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-12-768x1024.png?resize=720%2C960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1279\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Don&#8217;t ask: Sylvia has a fascination with the moon!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}