Starting from the ground and working up!

This was going to be a feature in our garden, hopefully for years to come.
It was going to be a project that we would work on together; I certainly couldn't do it alone. There needed to be at least two to work on the walls and at least three to get the roof sections up and into place.

In early November, the whole thing arrived on the back of a truck and was packed away into the garage that had been cleared for this very purpose.

The bicycles had to move to make way for the metric tonne of timber and metal that arrived. It was a tight fit to get everything inside. This was when I had my first misgiving; I wondered if it was goling to be too heavy to handle and too big a project for a distinctly amateur DIYer with basic carpentry skills. I did have a lot of optimism, determination and a can do attitude. I also had family who believed I could do it and I believed we would somehow manage to put this giant IKEA meets Meccano meets Lego construction kit together into an aesthetically-pleasing and fully-functioning Finlandian Grill Hut.

I took one look at the scrawny instructions and decided it was time to start watching YouTube videos. Someone will have done this before. Somebody will have made a helpful video showing me how to do it, step by step...surely.