[Aunt Sally]

It's a good job I roast my turkey.

I love the bunting, MoS.  Very tasteful !

[Aunt Sally]

That's made it look like a completely different shed, MoS.   

[New shoot]

Oh that is proper posh now 

I think we are ready for visitors, so the forum shed is officially open.  Bring a bottle or a cake or just yourself, pull up a chair and Merry Christmas everyone   

[mumofstig]

Do we have to invite the Lads? they always make such a mess....

[New shoot]

It is Christmas you know   

Anyway, if you want shed extension, dormer window in the roof and that leaky tap fixed, they could be useful 

[Growster...]

I'll bring the nuts, the bits for the screwballs, and the rusty nails...

[Yorkie]

Noooo, don't you dare get oily and rusty bits all over the nice clean shed 

[wighty]

Where is the shed now as I seem to remember we lost it.  I've been making shortbread this morning and a couple of cheesecakes, so I'll bring them with me. 

[New shoot]

Last time I saw the shed it was just past the rhubarb and behind the raspberries, but MoS may have moved it to hide it from the lads.  She has got all hoity toity over her freshly washed floors 

I'm sure if there is hm cheesecake and shortbread on the way, she'll pop out and wave to you    No-one wants to miss out on those 

[Growster...]

Er - why hide the shed from the lads, eh?

Sheds need blokes, and blokes need sheds; it's a known fact!

My shed has an old tape machine in it, sellotaped to the roof, and I like playing 'Marillion' (Clutching at straws), and 'Yes' (The whole lot, especially when Bill Bruford is drumming), so when I'm out there, my shed is my auditorium...

Work that one out, in the nicest possible way...:0{

[New shoot]

My shed has an old tape machine in it, sellotaped to the roof, and I like playing 'Marillion' (Clutching at straws), and 'Yes' (The whole lot, especially when Bill Bruford is drumming), so when I'm out there, my shed is my auditorium...

Hmmmm, not sure if that sells the idea of blokes in the shed Mr G.  If you can't find it, feel free to pop in at the still though.  I've got a cocktail or two going and after a few of those, you can play whatever music you want, as loud as you like ... no-one will notice   

[mumofstig]

cheesecake?

[wighty]

Found it!  We do seem to have 'better behaved gentlemen'  around now so we could be brave and let them in, so long as they promise not to strip down their rotavators and petrol   mowers this time as it made such a mess last time and poor old Auntie's curtains were used as oily rags and she'd made such a good job of them. 

[Growster...]

"so long as they promise not to strip down their rotavators"

I didn't know they were called that, Wighty, but then, what does a humble Growster understand when faced with such a formidable array of delightful ladies!

My shed is my haven, my temple, my horizon my b.. (that's enough shed similes, Growster - Ed)

And so it was ever thus, well, maybe that is..;0)

[wighty]

Mr. G, I'm ashamed of you, you are lowering the tone back down to where it was before.  I know you weren't around then, but the lads were very naughty.   Have we kept back one of those skips for the empties (we used to have to need one).   What time does the party start, I need to start early now to get the war paint on (time hasn't been kind).