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I remember watching the documentary film about AP McCoy trying to ride a record number of winners in a season. I know there are nice houses and then there are nice houses but his dressing room blew me away. I couldn't even begin to estimate what it cost.

Went to the docs today, been given 10 days meds this time and advised to take a couple of days rest from work. So no gardening (except watering) for a few days.

I hadn't got that far but the thought had crossed my mind. I'm boxed into a corner at the moment, with my shed, in pieces, stacked at the bottom of the garden, a freshly laid lawn between me and it and little room to work in to pull everything out. To get the shed and measure up properly for the base.

If I was looking and I'm not, but this isn't that far away and I've a mate near there who would help me to load it in the car. This seems on the cheap for a £800 when new compactor.

I will have to because I've taken it this time and because I'm a bit under the weather anyway, the drowsiness has hit me. When I'm my normal self, the grumpiness is probably just my way of showing very mild drowsiness.

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Forgot to look at the stream. Wife decided that with spare turf she would crack on with the small jungle at the front on the house. Overgrown grass, horsetail and a forsythia. Fair play she did the hard work although I'm not sure just how thorough she was at removing the existing grass and horsetail. I did recently spray it. So I get home and the bit she hasn't done has a FIBC 2/3 full of soft sand on it. So guess who had to decant enough sand to move the bag, then refill the bag before putting the last bit of turf down. God it looks a mess - 3 day old turf - but nothing lost for trying. Think I've over watered the back lawn last night so I might give it can miss or take it easy this morning. Currently battling the lurgy which is mix of cub camp and a bad reaction to a large number of insect bites. It doesn't help. Been getting bites ever since I started spending time next the garden - May time - and camping in the woods didn't help either. Already had a course of antibiotics in June for it. Was given an antihistamine, lozatridine (?), but I don't take it because it gives me mood swings - usually a bad mood. Need to ask the pharmacist for an alternative.

That's why it was internet with a z. I'm in no position to offer an opinion about the relative merits of any tools

The internetz sayz the 2.4hp petrol Evo is rubbish, let alone an electric one... Not going on eBay or gumtree for one, I'd have no idea what I was looking for.

It's down the bottom of the garden that hasn't been properly sorted. Just scraped off a little so the ground is fairly sound. The plan is to put membrane and mulch bark in that area anyway. A bit of joinery wouldn't be bad experience either. And I have 3 pieces of 11mm OSB2 that I could layer to make a 6x8 shed floor. Posts could be concreted in as well, not just into the ground. The playhouse sits on 4 posts bit that is going on the grass so that will have to wait a while. I'm just going to make 4 concretr pads for those legs. It was on paving stones before but I don't want to take up that much space this time.

I hate eBay pages that do that. Put the cheap accessory price for the default machine listing and picture.

Lol, a spare blade is £18. The mower is actually £260

I now have somewhere permanent to site a shed so I better do it properly. It has just spent 2 years sat on a tarp on the ground - although it is heavily shaded by mature trees that also suck the water out of the ground so the base was reasonably dry. I have obviously googled shed bases and I can do anything from lay concrete footings and a concrete slab, to paving flags base and even a timber frame base. Assuming the cement mixer I acquired still works its probably worth me having a practice with that. The flaw in my plan is that even if the mixer works, I'll still need to hire a compactor for the hardcore. I don't need something that you could build a house on but which way would you do it?

But then I need a shed to keep it in...

I might just see if there are any German supermarket specials available.

billt is right I don't need a petrol lawnmower as the max distance of lawn from house is only about 20m but I'm still interested. Will need something for next weekend to give it a cut.

Did we get anywhere on lawn mowers?

We are metered, will just have to take the hit, think it's about £4/cu metre. Don't think there enough water in the brook to run a pump. I'll have a look tonight. Biggest problem is having to move the sprinkler round so I'm going to buy 3 more and just swap the tap connections to rotate them. We have a bfo trampoline that I had to take down and a playhouse. Kids only have 8 days to wait till the go on their hols so theyll be ok. Overcooked it on the turf, got 25 rolls spare

Don't go there. She always leaves more questions than she answers. Anyways must go water the thing for an hour before work. Did you hear the joke about the Welshman who knew the secret of guaranteeing nice weather? His wife got a lawn laid at the worst time of year. I'm calling a summer hotter than 1976.

I go away for cub camp and wtf?

The garden is lower than the house by a metre or so but the sewerage is pretty deep. I just don't think I can have my waste all underground. Perhaps overground to start with going into the bank and hitting the manhole thing would be ok? A toilet would be nice but what I'm really thinking, now I realise a garage and car would be too much for me... A microbrewery in the garden.

Exactly. I'm not SQEP to do the designing of the circuit. Although I will update with a bit of info. But I should be able to run some duct down the garden. I was thinking of 'daisy chaining' 2 lengths of duct rather than 2 separate whole lengths to each spot. The first point will pop out in the border, near a fence and the second will be down the garden in the 'wild' area. If I put a base down for the shed I could bring it up through the concrete into the shed directly.

Went on eBay and actually ended up looking at oval glamping pod frames. £900 for a 4x3 oval. That would look great but wondering what material would you clad the exterior in?

Sounds very interesting. Need to get a patio but and the drive redone first though.

Did not know they worked that way. I was thinking about a toilet. Might still be possible but a bit more thought required.