This area is resonably level and is used to store timber, logs, bags of leaf mould and ready-sifted compost, and is also the site of Slug Boy's Den, built from *my* decking sheets. There is also a small pit, aproximately 500mm square and 150mm deep, that is kept filled with grit sand, to encourage Charlie Cat not to leave "deposits" in the garden.
Left to its own devices, this area would be overrun with brambles and briars, spreading from the patch that backs against next door's garage. Technically, it isn't my land, as it belongs to the very rich man who owns the disused railway cutting, but as there are no permanent fixtures or fittings, I'm sure he wouldn't object to me using these few square metres in exchange for maintenance of the twice-as-big Woodland Glade.

This is an area of 150mm thick reinforced concrete hardstanding, approximately 3.6m wide, that is used as a storage area for tools and materials associated with my business, and for the bikes, go-carts and other junk that I don't allow the kids to dump in my shed or my garden.
It is screened from the garden by the ivies scrambling up and over the fencing and trellis work. I also use this area to store the water butts that collect rainwater from the shed roof. The water butts are linked to each other via a short length of hosepipe, and there is a longer length hosepipe that carries the collected rainwater to a simple on/off tap next to the garden gate. This arrangement allows me to fill my watering cans without having to leave the garden, or battle my way through the compound.
I have plans to site my long-overdue greenhouse in the compound, once all the junk is cleared out, and to move the shed into there, releasing another 4 or 5 square metres of garden that I want to turn into a shady arbour.

This is a 1.8m x 2.4m apex roof garden shed, used to store all my gardening tools and my composts, feeds, lawnmower, pots, trays and a million other garden bits and bobs. Naturally, it is also cram full with paint tins, timber and mouldings, half a bag of cement, an 1929 Imperial Typewrite, my first computer and my power toys, ermm.. tools.
There is a work-bench and vice at the far end, and a smaller potting bench beneath the window on the north facing wall, with a shelf overhead for my seed trays and labels. I also keep my Garden Diary in here, and I can sit on the half-bag of cement and jot down what's been planted where, ideas and pipe-dreams for the future, and general weather information, such as frosts or unusual mild spells.