The BBC report on this Signal box that has had many lives. A Victorian railway signal box which closed more than 40 years ago has been given a new lease of life as a hide for bird watchers. Until recently it was used as a garden shed in Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys, but needed a £10,000 restoration.… Continue reading Signal box was shed, now twitchers hide
Andrew Wilcox
I love sheds
Founder & judge of Shed of the year - Wilco writes mainly about sheds.
Mothers’ Day ruined thanks to spiders?
The shed’s best friend the Spider is being blamed on ruining Mothers’ Day for a flourists as reported by annienova photo credit: Will Fuller Thousands of Mothers’ Day flowers had to be destroyed after florists discovered they were infested with spiders. The roses and carnations were being prepared for Sunday when shocked shop assistants realised… Continue reading Mothers’ Day ruined thanks to spiders?
The lion the witch and the shed
From the times “I wonder whether he has a garden shed of sorts (or some other sort of world) in which to disappear when he chooses.” Graphologist Diane Simpson didn’t know whose handwriting she was analysing. It’s in fact CS lewis handwriting, so not sure what it says about sheddies… that they use their sheds… Continue reading The lion the witch and the shed
Eco-friendly home unveiled – not shed
The UK’s first affordable, super-eco-friendly home was unveiled in London yesterday. The flat-pack, timber-frame homes are designed to be carbon zero and meet the government’s strictest energy efficiency code. Rural Zed, the consortium behind “the homes of the futureâ€, are taking orders for the £150,000, three-bedroom house now and are promising to deliver in as… Continue reading Eco-friendly home unveiled – not shed
Table tennis sheddie olympic hopeful
credit: oswaldo The Times has this story about an 18 year Table Tennis player and his hope for Gold in 2012 Olympics Knight was first spotted by this newspaper playing in a garden shed in Wandsworth in the summer of 2002 along with three young friends from council estates in London. The boys would travel… Continue reading Table tennis sheddie olympic hopeful
GARDEN shed thieves are being hunted by a police helicopter.
Officers are taking to the skies to spot people with a thermal imaging after break-ins in the Chalfonts. Homes which back onto railway lines are particularly at risk, they warned. advertisement Meanwhile, police are searching for burglars who got into a High Wycombe house – when the front door was left over. The Chalfonts break-ins… Continue reading GARDEN shed thieves are being hunted by a police helicopter.
Thurgarton Iron Works new Sales & Marketing Director
Our friends over at Thurgarton Iron Works have got themselves a Sales & Marketing Director to look after their interests in Shed of the year 2008, I wish I could bankroll a expert in that field 😉 His first remit will be to concentrate his Monster marketing efforts on the upcoming Readers Sheds competition and… Continue reading Thurgarton Iron Works new Sales & Marketing Director
Just Sheds Tuesday : The Bunker
This week we are going old school (if there is such a thing in the shed world) With an allotment shed, as in the dark and distance shed time (and not using a TARDIS shed to go back) the only place to find a shed for most people was on an allotment, and of course… Continue reading Just Sheds Tuesday : The Bunker
Video of the week : FinRaucous is back
The wonderful sheddie FinRaucous is back on youtube with a great rendition of Love Machine Originally by Girls Aloud (2004) but also covered by Arctic Monkeys, played in his shed on a Ukulele & Tea Chest.
Plane crashes into back garden
An elderly couple who had a lucky escape when a plane landed in their garden told the pilot: “Thanks for dropping in.” Eileen Watling, 71, and husband Alfie, 83, were settling down to watch a movie on TV when the Cessna light aircraft, carrying two people, landed nose-first in their conifers. The pilot had got… Continue reading Plane crashes into back garden