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Post by oldmoleskins on Sept 29, 2007 12:17:34 GMT
I have this garden shed we call "The Writer's Hut" to distinguish it from other sheds and because I harbour the foolish notion I might make it into a sort of garden study/fishing tackle room and spend my rapidly approaching dotage penning articles or maybe a late magnum opus from it...  Anyway, it's full of domestic detritus at the mo, and the other day I couldn't find the key. I tried other keys in case they might fit - no joy - and in the end barged it and freed the lock from its keep. For a few days I secured the door with string wound round the handle (you can see it hanging there), but found a Yale cylinder and keys (there is a redundant Yale lock as well, for which we've never had the key) and set about changing the cylinder. It was the usual palaver on account of the screws being too long and the tang thing that links cylinder with lock being too long, and involved several trips to the workshop and an ever-increasing collection of tools and new screws, but I hacksawed and reassembled the thing and got back security. Then I realised the other lock was of the same pattern as an internal door that I don't need to lock - and for which I have a key - so I swapped them over, first taking the locked lock apart to free the bolt so that the catch would still operate when closing the internal door. Of course, this meant new screws for the keep and drilling out the handles on account of the tiny screws that secure them being buggered (as we call it in the trade) - but no worry, I had more screws and the required taps to make a new thread and the prospect of full security... all in all a whole morning's worth, but a job well done. It was on the way back to the workshop with the accumulated tools that I noticed the missing key on the driveway, in the gravel, just by those steps... OM. |
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Post by Dr Bill on Sept 29, 2007 12:26:19 GMT
And I bet it cost more than a new lock would have done ;D
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2007 12:39:14 GMT
Great story, OM ... and I waaaaannnt that shed ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by MamIDdau on Sept 29, 2007 12:40:54 GMT
LOL So true... done it loads of times. Makes you feel a complete plonker.
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Post by oldmoleskins on Sept 29, 2007 12:47:27 GMT
ps - that curious 'leaning tower of greenthing' is an ornamental conifer that has been chewed by rabbits all round. Now they're going up on their hind legs to graze the upper part and pushing it over... just one thing after another...
OM.
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Post by Plocket on Sept 29, 2007 12:55:38 GMT
PML OM! What an excellent story! At least you can get into the shed again and hopefully you will be inspired to make it into a lovely hide-away. I'd love to have that shed as a little painting studio  |
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Post by Shrubrose on Sept 29, 2007 14:58:22 GMT
Truly a wonderful story OM and well told. I had such a giggle. Thankyou ;D And it is a great shed. Worth the trouble I'd say.
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Post by Weeterrier on Sept 29, 2007 15:39:29 GMT
I'd like a shed like that too, though it would be no time before I'd be moving a bed in and sleeping there. Wee stove in the corner, gingham curtains..............................
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2007 20:58:50 GMT
i have shed envy.!!!! we have a tiny shed and i long for it to be bigger so i can spend my days in it happily painting. its a beauty OM. glad you can get back inside again. GET WRITING!!!!! xxx |
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Post by Biggles on Sept 30, 2007 20:29:29 GMT
Oh how I envy you--Just my dream to have a lovely shed like that to do my Paintings--by keeping the 'Oil/ Turpentine smells away from the house.
Dont forget to have a duplicate key made just in case the same thing happens again--but then you will probally forget where you have put that one!!
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Post by jean on Sept 30, 2007 20:36:21 GMT
I can just picture you sitting at a desk under the window scribbling your memoirs OM ;D A paraffin heater might be an idea though  But then again - check these out www.shepherd-hut.co.uk/uses.htm |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Oct 1, 2007 7:59:06 GMT
Thank you all for your interest in my tribulation... and amobile Writer's Hut, JL - now there's a thing...
OM.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2007 18:40:50 GMT
oh i need to find some cash fast and buy myself a shepherds hut.
how lovely.
xxxx
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2007 19:37:31 GMT
Good start with the writing," the missing key" could turn into a book of short stories.
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 9, 2007 7:41:47 GMT
That really is typical, all that work to find the key right under your nose ;D Looks like a lovely hideaway place OM and I just love the name. I'd definately get that converted asap and get the pen and pad out It reminded me of when I lived with my Nan. We had 2 old wooden railway wagons on the edge of the drive and garden. Made fabulous sheds, really solid and weather proof. I had a couple of old arm chairs in one and on a rainy day read many a magazine in there. It was great to have somewhere to get away from my Nan when she'd got her nagging head on, bless her |
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Post by thecleaninglady on Oct 9, 2007 8:15:43 GMT
Loved the story OM, and the shed. Unfortunately, if I had that shed in my garden, I wouldn't have any garden left!
My shed is actually the playhouse we built for the children when they were much younger, so it does have a carpet, curtains and a battery powered light.
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