Our cottage still has a very small narrow space at the back, this is a pretty depressing little space and has been used for the last few years as a place to store lengths of wood covered in a tarp. It gets very little sunlight and is always slightly damp (we would not believe the number of toads I keep finding round there).
So yesterday I cleared all the wood, rehoused the toads and dug out the big bucket of white masonry paint I brought 6 months ago.