Day 81/183: Shed’s dead, baby. Shed’s dead.

[nanila]

The bloke knocked down the old shed the weekend before last to make way for the new shed. The Polaroid above is in one of two pretty paper notebooks that the bloke brought back on his last trip to Delhi before the lockdown. I take a pair of Polaroids every few days, and file them to make a Covid diary for each of the children as a memento of this peculiar time.


Here you can a very happy man in his fancy metal shed. It has power sockets and light switches and a work bench. We celebrated the new shed’s arrival with our first takeaway food in 2.5 months, which included our first chips and ice cream (not consumed simultaneously) in the same duration. This is because we don’t currently have a functioning freezer, for reasons too dull to elucidate. The takeaway was from our local pub, which has just reopened for said purpose. Anyway, we wolfed down our burgers and chips and gobbled up our desserts with indecent haste. Food that someone else had made has never tasted so delicious.

Finally, here is a photo of Telstar on the wooden bench in our garden, taken by the bloke with his fancy new iPhone.

Comments

[corvidology]

Ah, an Englishman and his shed. My dad has two! :D

[redsixwing]

Congratulations on the shed, the excellent documentation, and the very photogenic cat. ;)

[azurelunatic]

Food that someone else has made is very important and tasty.

[annofowlshire]

I love the memory books you’re making for your children.

We had our first take-away a couple of weeks ago when a local Italian place opened up for the purpose. That said, we rarely do take-away anyway, so it was a double special treat XD

[cmcmck]

Ganesh! :o)

[sfred]

Happy New Shed Day!

[tree_and_leaf]

An impressive shed, and that's a cracking picture of Telstar!

[askygoneonfire]

I love the idea of those polaroid diaries. And that photos of Telstar is AMAZING.

[pbristow]

Love the diary idea. And... Sheds! And Telstar!! And moody lighting which Telstar totally deserves!!!

[lorigami]

lovely!

[bob]

at what point do they get to watch pulp fiction to get the reference?

[hilarita]

"If you're photogenic and you know it, stare broodingly into the distance," says Telstar.

[lurkingcat]

We had food that someone else had made a couple of weeks ago as a birthday treat and it was amazing. A tiny taste of the before times.

That is a wonderful photograph of a highly photogenic cat. Kheldar has just bounced onto my lap to approve it. And possibly also to alert me to the fact that it is raining outside and could I perhaps towel him down just as soon as he's finished dripping on my (fortunately closed) work laptop.

[silveradept]

Telstar is a very photogenic cat. The shed looks quite nice, the diaries will be interesting, and hooray for food not crafted by your own hands.

[omnipotent]

The Covid diary sounds like a fun project for the kiddos.

Bloke looks awfully proud of his swanky new shed. The takeaway meal sounds like it really hit the spot.

That is such a great shot of Telstar. The lighting is perfect.