Sheds and Barns

[DaveB]

Next stage in construction of the shed completed.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5MLC4qEfdU

 

[AngusMacG]

Next stage in construction of the shed completed.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5MLC4qEfdU

So when is the Grand Opening party? Will need to start looking at flights

 

[DaveB]

So when is the Grand Opening party? Will need to start looking at flights

Builder is booked in for 3rd week of June and removalists for 4th week.
Snooker table will be back in play first week of July

 

[ECrider]

Next stage in construction of the shed completed.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5MLC4qEfdU

You are very softly spoken DaveB - you are like the Richard Attenborough of Sheds in the Wild.

 

[DaveB]

You are very softly spoken DaveB - you are like the Richard Attenborough of Sheds in the Wild.

One does not have to speak loudly to be heard by the many.

 

[Shaky]

A lovely garden Dave.

The only downside I can see to your new shed (I would chew my own arm off for something like that), is the loss of the view out the back.

Hopefully you have other views to admire though.

 

[Tom109]

@DaveB - Looking good!

 

[DaveB]

A lovely garden Dave.

The only downside I can see to your new shed (I would chew my own arm off for something like that), is the loss of the view out the back.

Hopefully you have other views to admire though.

View from our front verandah

Across the road

 

[Shaky]

Scratch that comment about the view out the back, you don’t need it. Lots of nicer views out the front and it looks like you have your own zoo on the doorstep as well

I have relatives over in Aus and having been there, you don’t seem to have a shortage of land !!

 

[DaveB]

Scratch that comment about the view out the back, you don’t need it. Lots of nicer views out the front and it looks like you have your own zoo on the doorstep as well

I have relatives over in Aus and having been there, you don’t seem to have a shortage of land !!

This was last winter in the backyard. A big male standing behind the Grenadier.
We have a couple of hundred kangaroos that wander around the neighbourhood

Conversely the goannas tend to be around the back yard in the warmer months.



Plenty of birds, turtles, dolphins and other wildlife close by.

 

[Max]

How do you cope? just put the sunnies on

 

[DaveB]

How do you cope? just put the sunnies on

Guiness, Whisky and Wine also help.

 

[DaveB]

Ok. the builders arrived on site this afternoon Sunday 23rd June 2024.
They are camping down the back and ready to start at 6am.
They tell me 5-6 days straight to get it done.

My wife has advised that she requires me to build a bar inside the shed.
I have decided I would like to dedicate the bar area to the Grenadier.

Surprise surprise.

So if any members of the forum would like to contribute with something I can add to the bar, or mount on the wall, I would be extremely grateful.

My address is
Dave Boreland
53 Moreton Street
Toogoom 4655
Queensland
Australia.

Absolutely anything you think may be suitable.

If anyone from Ineos or an Ineos dealer is reading this if you have any old Ineos marketing material or signs that would be fantastic.
I have 150 square metres to fill

 

[DaveB]

9:30 am on the first day of the build and the posts are all up.
Bit of a cold start for the boys and typical winters day.
Got down to 9 degrees last night and has finally made it up to 17 on the way to a max of 22 degrees.

 

[DaveB]

End of the first day and all the framing is up.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0X0yiNRfw

 

[PBD]

End of the first day and all the framing is up.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0X0yiNRfw

Wish I had the room to put one up! What a fantastic home for your Grenadier and mates!

 

[Shaky]

A proper winters day then if it got all the way down to 9 degrees and eventually worked its way back to 17 ! That’s still shorts and tee shirt time in the UK

I am trying to think if I have anything to send you Dave, I will have a ponder on that subject

 

[DaveB]

A proper winters day then if it got all the way down to 9 degrees and eventually worked its way back to 17 ! That’s still shorts and tee shirt time in the UK

I am trying to think if I have anything to send you Dave, I will have a ponder on that subject

Any tiny little token will be greatly appreciated.
This whole Grenadier journey has been fantastic.
A huge part of this has been the forum.
A couple of years ago I was stuck in Andermatt Switzerland with Covid and it was members of the Forum that kept in touch with me and helped.
This entire project of building the shed has been about the Grenadier.
I have no idea when my first post was but it has been a journey.

 

[Shaky]

It must have been hell on earth being stuck in as SIX STAR resort Dave, but I know what you mean.

When COVID kicked off and the world decided to close, a work colleague arrived in India for a holiday and couldn’t get back, he was stuck in a luxury hotel for weeks, the poor sod had to endure sharing the hotel and sitting around a pool with a whole other family.

Admittedly he wasn’t ill though.

 

[DaveB]

It must have been hell on earth being stuck in as SIX STAR resort Dave, but I know what you mean.

When COVID kicked off and the world decided to close, a work colleague arrived in India for a holiday and couldn’t get back, he was stuck in a luxury hotel for weeks, the poor sod had to endure sharing the hotel and sitting around a pool with a whole other family.

Admittedly he wasn’t ill though.

I was not sick at all that time.
Unfortunately I caught COVID in May and was very sick.
I damaged my throat and tore the muscles in my side and stomach from severe coughing.