You may remember that my son recently had a shed delivered and assembled by Team Cusp Famille. Now, the shed has been put up alongside the hedge which borders our neighbour and means that, in part of their garden at least, they now see the back of a shed rather than a beautiful vista across the Cusp Estate ;0).
Our neighbours are an older couple. The wife is a wheelchair user so she can only just see across the top of the hedge and rarely gets to go out since her husband had to give up his driving license. We asked them about putting up the shed in case they didn't want to feel more hemmed in (though their garden is enormous and reaches another 100 metres past ours which is also quite big.) There were no objections but I promised that I would paint something on the back of the shed so that when O. comes out to her pond to feed her fish, at least she isn't just looking at 5 feet of black ship lap.
This week the couple have gone on holiday so whilst they've been away I've been nipping out in between the downpours and painting a lovely 'muriel' on the reverse of the shed.
I've always loved all the myths of the Green Man and the shed is situated under the apples trees where there is a blackbird's nest. This has been my inspiration.
I hope our neighbours like what I've painted. We'll have to wait and see
