Frugal in the corner

 Hello everyone , how are you today? It's very windy here to the point i have had to shut windows as they keep getting blown closed, very loudly and scaring the life out of me. We finally did something in the garden that we wanted to do ages ago but didn't have time and couldn't afford the wood for it. Now we have both. This manhole cover is raised up and to be honest every time our children played out and were running around the garden my heart would literally jump a beat when they got close to it, i mean thank god no one ever got hurt , probably me shouting "be careful " every 5 minutes was so in grained into them that they slowed right down next to it. Here it is..in all its old glory. Smack dab in the middle of no where and raised up like an accident waiting to happen. We decided to make it into a garden box seat.  The frame was first after we measured every thing twice and made sure we had the wood. I totally forgot to take a pic sorry. But then we got on and...