So we're in Day 2 of the Greenhouse Erection Epic (GEE). I am aching and whimpery, my helper is battered and scabbed, and the four main side pieces of g/h that are now assembled are flecked and spattered with blood, as if someone was clubbed to death during the making of it. Someone nearly was.

Meanwhile, the patio contains reminants of the battle - sheared bolts, screws with the head all crushed, strange fragments of metal that look like they should have been used somewhere for something but somehow never were. Thankfully, according to the instructions we're about 3/4 of the way through. Our brains finally went into system shutdown yesterday when grappling with the instructions for attaching the wheels to the door frames, but that was only after a long afternoon trying to identify side glazing bars from end glazing bars, horizontal bracing angles from ridge gusset plates and bolt slots from beading tracks. After all that, trying to work out which way round to attach a wheel to a door was enough to get us tearful and over emotional so it was about then we gave up and when down the Chinese for beer and chicken satay.

Luckily, my helper didn't flee the country at the prospect of a rematch, so today we're going to grimly press on from where we left off. One window vent and a couple of door wheels is theoretically all that stands between us and the glazing experience which *should* be the easiest bit. Then again, this time yesterday I was optimistically thinking we could get the lot done in a couple of hours so...more blood may be spilt before this day is out.

"We shall assemble them on the landing grounds, we shall assemble them in the fields and in the streets, we shall assemble them in the hills; we shall never surrender" (Winson Churchill - speaking about Greenhouses)