The Shed

SIMPLE PLEASURES

A plea to the editor from Deigh Davies back in Issue No. 101 of The Shed struck a chord with me. Often, I undertake small projects and, because of their size and simplicity, I tend to dismiss them as potential articles for this great magazine. To rectify that, I have put together this article covering some of these smallish, shed excursions.

As you may know from some of my previous articles, I’m an inveterate scrounger of bits and pieces that I can cobble together to make something I need. Recently, it turned out that I could do with a small trolley that needed to carry a short broom, a hand-held vacuum cleaner, and a bucket to clean and collect cat litter in the cattery that my wife and I run. As luck would have it, we were about to throw out an old shopping trolley that was perfect for the job. I secured a frying pan, minus handle, to the base to support the bucket, and a length of PVC pipe on one

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