My father has just phoned me to ask if I had spare time to help build him a summerhouse or an orangery. I won’t lie and try to claim that I know what an orangery is, my first thought was that it was some kind of building associated with the orange order. Apparently it is like a conservatory.
Now, it is the middle of november, it is winter, it is cold here. Christmas is just round the corner, I will admit that I have had thoughts of a organising a holiday somewhere warm. But the last thing on my mind is building a summerhouse, even in the summer I think that the last thing I would be thinking of is building a summerhouse.
My dad is not young, he is in his 80’s, not an age that I would recommend starting a project like this. I am not sure why he wants to do it himself either. I would have thought for a project of this magnitude that he would have got someone in to do the work. Reluctantly I have agreed to get involved in his latest scheme. I am not sure what help I can be, I don’t have any experience of this sort of thin, I know nothing about summerhouses and orangeries. I have started looking at some sites on the web though. My dad seems to have made up his mind that he wants one from Amdega, and to be fair they do look good.
I am not sure when we are going to start building the summerhouse or orangery. What I am sure about is that it will involve a lot of sweat, tears, work, hopefully some fun but I know that we will argue like no one business.
