But we are getting closer. The last few days have been a bit cooler so we have made good progress - despite skiving off yesterday to go on a trip to pick up some sheep with a friend - she is going as mad on the animals as us and has been having great fun with them escaping everywhere!
We now have the hole dug out and leveled and the framework in place for pouring the concrete. We now have to go and buy sand, gravel and cement from various different places as well as reinforcing stuff to go in the concrete. We are still fretting a bit about how exactly we should do the reinforcing and whether we should put a damp proof membrane under or not. I guess it can't do any harm and we have it so might as well.
We still need to brace the shuttering along its length so it doesn't bow out with the weight of the concrete and we need to screw the piece of wood to the side between the two long lengths as we are planning on laying it in three separate pieces otherwise we are worried we won't be able to mix enough before it starts setting.
It is all very daunting. I am sure after doing it a few times it seems like a doddle, but at the moment we are fretting a lot because if we do it wrong we will have a giant lump of dodgy concrete in a place it will be difficult to remove it from or we will have a cracked and wonky shed base.
The diagonals are a couple of cm different so it isn't EXACTLY square but we have decided we have to live with that.
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