Lost Guttering of the 70s, Part 2

Since we burnt through half of our woodpile to dry the house out, I decided I may as well completely dismantle the first bay—the one with the logs in it—so that I could raise the wood in it off the ground—like I had in the second bay, the one with the sticks in it.

Having removed all the logs, and dug all the weeds and rubbish out of this bay, I used the last of the timber we salvaged from a monster packing crate to make a platform a few inches off the ground. The off-cut from this platform forms a removable cover to protect the wood from worst of the rain. So, as long as we have wood, we should have no trouble getting a fire going.

Having rebuilt the woodpile, I then added to it everything else I could lay my hands on that needed sawing up. Here is the end result.

BTW: I had a nasty surprise while digging in this patch of dirt: a piece of timber that was riddled with very-much-alive, wriggling termites! None of the other timber I found in this spot contained any termites, but I emptied an entire can of Mortein onto the wood and the ground beneath it, and then drowned the wood in a bucket of turps! Just to be sure to be sure.