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All the serious papers have picked up on this today. The metro, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2182423.ece, Daily mail, and the not so serious ones the telegraph. Most neighbours have a pet dog or cat – but not Siouxsie Gillett and Mark Amey. The animal mad couple have got an entire zoo their back garden complete with a crocodile,… Continue reading Sheddies keep crocodile in their shed
Our friends at Camra of course the people that are Campaigning for Real Ale, Pubs and Drinkers’, like us sheddies! Has given us a copy of the 3rd edition of the excellent Brew Your Own British Real Ale You can win a copy here.
Not a shed story but we have had a few sheds built by this natural wossname, so read on. Council tenants are being offered houses built of straw in a British first. Four straw-bale semi-detached homes are due to be built by North Kesteven District Council, in Lincolnshire, as part of its drive to provide… Continue reading Want an Eco-Straw house? go to Lincolnshire
Mike over at findaproperty blog had written something nice about readersheds Took a ramble over to readersheds.co.uk a few days ago, and my how they’ve grown! What began as a bit of fun at the end of the garden has mushroomed into an internet phenomenon with forums, blogs, celebrity involvement, merchandising, flickr groups, and, I… Continue reading Readersheds is an “internet phenomenon”!
THE nephew of the Sinclair C5’s inventor is appealing for the return of his own C5 mini electric vehicle after it was stolen from a garden shed so say the Oxford Times Andrew Bryson, who kept his battery-powered vehicle in his shed at his Faringdon home, discovered last week that his prize possession had vanished.… Continue reading Sinclair C5 Stolen from Shed
AN AMPLIFIER discovered in a Liverpool shed was almost certainly used by The Beatles, according the Livepool Echo It was found a few streets away from George Harrison’s old home in Woolton. A relative of Beatles memorabilia collector Stan Cargill was asked to clear the shed. To his amazement, the amp was a Vox AC30,… Continue reading Beatles’ amp found in shed
Today is the start of the Chinese new year, we wish a prosperous one to all our Chinese visitors. But after the success of the last week and the great new sheds added, I think this year will be the Year of the Shed! One of our sheddies will be sipping tea in there shed… Continue reading Chinese new year – Year of the Ox – Year of the Shed here
A lot of people wonder how to heat their sheds, so John over at Secrets of Shed building has a great post about this very thing, one of his readers dave has given it a go, here is a brief snippet of it In true shed building tradition, the stove is recycled, thrown out when… Continue reading Installing a Woodburning Stove in your shed
The scarborough evening news this morning! reports A son beat the credit crunch by burying his dad under a shed in the back garden. Now officials at East Riding of Yorkshire Council are hoping to persuade Bridlington man Philip Pilling, 57, to agree to an “alternative” burial arrangement for dad Aubrey, who died just before… Continue reading Dad’s buried under the shed
Timber lost from a Russian-registered cargo ship has washed up on the Kent coast, coastguards said. Large amounts of the wood has been seen on coastline around Ramsgate and Margate. The ship Sinegorsk issued an alert in rough seas after it lost up to 1,500 tonnes of its sawn timber load around 14 miles off… Continue reading How many sheds can you build with that?