@Faith-and-Hope, the blue Butterfly Pea flower tea looks spectacular! Butterfly Pea Cheesecake to g with it?
@Bezak482, I've got big plans for a shed-studio of my own one of these days. 🙂 Planning on it being "owner built", but not mudbrick. Council regs get more complicated as soon as you use any form of masonry.
@Bezak482, same with our council. 10 square metres is the official cut-off size, so more convenient dimensions like 2.5x 4 are do-able. I've been saving up salvaged building materials. Planning on going with a mostly metal shell (fire, flood and pest resistant) on a masonry slab. Not poured slab- if I do a sturdy footing around the outside, I can infill with cement-mortared rubble etc. and save a lot on the cost/enviro impact of the concrete while still having a stable floor. And I might sneak in 30cms of masonry at the base of the walls.... the "no masonry" and under 10 sq. m rules are largely based on building safety. Such a small structure in lightweight materials is unlikely to end up catastrophically unsafe; a 2-3 metre high brick wall could be deadly if it's not built to code. But I figure 30 cms of masonry is low enough to be guaranteed safe, and would help make the walls above more structurally sound. 🙂
The first challenge is finding the "get up and go" to start on it. 
But we (Hubby and I) have managed to tackle some of our yard/house jobs that have been on the waiting list lately, which makes the prospect of shed building feel somewhat more attainable. 🙂
@Faith-and-Hope, I've got seeds for the Blue Butterfly Pea. Am hoping that my recently set up greenhouse might improve my chances of growing them. They really prefer somewhat warmer conditions than we get here. (I believe Sydney and northwards...) I wanna try Blue Butterfly Rice. 🙂
