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SWMBO decided whilst having an Earl Grey at the three legged coffee table that it was time to build an arbour to replace the one that three years back she made me demolish.
So lots of sawing, screwing and ladder climbing we have a gazebo. This hopefully will keep the rain off the bench and three legged coffee table.
To help with the construction I made a special tool that worked so well I made another two.


I know it looks like a piece of string, but it is more than that, it is a piece of scrapped plastic clothes line.
I used these three "tools" to hold each of the five roof panels in a semi rolled state whilst screwing the first two fasteners on each stringer. The need for this was 'cos my arms are too short to reach across the full width of a panel.
The sad bit is that Gwen wants me to throw them away now, as well as what is left of the clothes line. Fair enough really I guess because I have been hording the bloody thing for over thirty years knowing that someday it would come in useful.
Well here is the arbour decreed by SWMBO, big enough for three A8s.