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I am very please to announce that Punks not Dad are the official band of Shed Week 2009, ok it’s the first time we had such a thing, but after their wonderful song about sheds “IN ME SHED” it would be wrong not to get them involved… STOP PRESS: IN ME SHED Will be released… Continue reading Official Band of Shed Week : Punks not Dad
We love a TARDIS shed on shedblog and you lot have some great ones., anyway Auntie is running a comp to star in a TARDIS scene. BBC One’s Tonight’s The Night is running a competition that offers the winner the chance to appear as an Alien in a specially-written Doctor Who scene. The scene will… Continue reading Sheddies Want to be an alien in Dr Who set on the TARDIS
From ananova German twin brothers have spent the last nine years painstakingly putting together the world’s biggest train set. The world’s biggest train set /Solent News/Rex Housed in a previously empty Hamburg building, it covers 1,150 square metres and features almost six miles of track, but is still not complete. Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41,… Continue reading Can you spot the Sheds in the World’s largest trainset?
Hidden parking spaces which pop up from your drive have become a must-have home-improvement in London. The £40,000 parking spots can be hidden beneath a flowerbed, lawn, or even another parking space. Owners simply press a button on a keyring to raise they car out of the ground much like the rocket launching apparatus in… Continue reading Fancy having one of these under your shed?
The Louthleader reports BRITAIN’S first cloud watching platform will open along our coast next week with BBC weatherman Paul Hudson set to cut the ribbon. The £30,000 wooden structure on the beach at Anderby Creek will allow visitors to recline on specially designed seating and identify various cloud formations. Paul Hudson said: “We are doing… Continue reading Want to watch clouds from a shed on the beach, now you can!
photo credit: Chor Ip POLICE are warning shed owners to think security following a number of break-ins at allotments in South Somerset. Several sheds at allotments in Ilminster were raided by burglars between 7pm on March 19 and 9am on March 20 and various items were stolen including a rotavator and a petrol strimmer. Now… Continue reading Allotment shed owners urged to protect them
Grout can become discoloured over time with mould, cooking splashes, shower gel and shampoo residues taking their toll. Before you consider replacing the grout, try scrubbing it with sugar-soap or grout-cleaning spray and then, if necessary, use grout paint to make it white again. If this doesn’t do the trick, and you can’t live with… Continue reading TOP TIPS FOR… replacing grout
Alex has found this great little bin.. Its a prototype, so Alex wont be getting one for his upcoming birthday 😉 Greenhouse is a bin which looks like a shed. Press the ‘porch’ pedal and, voila, the roof opens for your rubbish requirements. Sadly it’s only a prototype at the moment, a marvellous idea from… Continue reading Recyling with a shed bin
NTNews reports A MAN’S home might be his castle, but for George and Jacinda Brown their home is their shed. And it’s an environmentally friendly one at that – the Brown’s Batchelor shed has just been named the Australia’s most “planet friendly” dwelling. The shed received the accolade from the Alternative Technology Association, which has… Continue reading Great Oz Eco-Shed
Shed Judge Lloyd Alter reports on this posh shed. Susanne Watzeck & Jörg Sturm designed this in 1996 as the “first unit of a space system in which the individual functions living, cooking, washing, sleeping, working are accommodated in separate units.” However, years later with garden sheds and small spaces being all the rage, it… Continue reading Rotating Shed Follows the Sun – only useful sometimes in UK