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According to the mirror The rev Jamie Allen says to stay happily married you need a shed, I can’t comment on that personally , but if you sheddies agree let me know. A vicar is advising couples who get hitched in his church to buy a shed if they want a long and happy marriage.… Continue reading Married? want to stay happy? get a shed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla After installing TV cameras and removing covers during a spacewalk Thursday, the astronauts at the linked shuttle and station got ready for their next challenge: attaching a storage shed to the bus-size lab. The 210-mile (338-kilometer) construction job was set for Friday afternoon. The lab, named Kibo, Japanese for hope, is so… Continue reading In Space there is no where to hide from sheds
Shocking story on the BBC from Derby, our feelings go out to the allotmenters , thinking about all the work they have done. Vandals have wrecked allotments in Derby in a rampage which left almost every building on the site damaged. They smashed more than 40 panes of glass in sheds and greenhouses and repairs… Continue reading Vandals wreck allotment sheds
Seem to be a lot of shed fires, so be careful sheddies. Two injured in Buckley ‘explosion’ A MAN suffered burns when a garden shed “exploded”, leaving residents in shock. Shed Fire accidental Four people escaped injury when flames engulfed a large shed, early this morning. Fireball ‘went 50ft in air’ after Blackburn shed arson… Continue reading Shed news round up
Well here on shedblog and readersheds have always know that sheds are special and the general media has started to pick it up again, which is good, The indypendant has a great article on how sheds are helping the current UK credit crunch. Ten years ago, it went upmarket and became an outsourced office or… Continue reading Sheds are from Heaven?
A man today told of his narrow escape after finding a live grenade in a shed he was about to knock down. Bomb disposal experts were called to Paul Fittock’s home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire to detonate the Second World War device he found gathering dust on a shelf. Mr Fittock, 33, only discovered the device… Continue reading Man finds live grenade in shed when knocking it down
Staff at a DIY store could be facing disciplinary action after pictures showing them wearing nothing but their work aprons were posted on an internet networking site. Videos showing workers play-fighting in the aisles of B&Q, in Hartcliffe, Bristol, were also put up on Facebook, it was claimed. The company has launched an internal inquiry… Continue reading Shed news in briefs
Setting up a garden office may have ruined my bank balance but it did wonders for my ego Giving up my outside office and relocating to the bottom of the garden was supposed to save money, but it hasn’t worked out that way, mainly because I decided to oversee its construction myself. I imported the… Continue reading The shed office clown says
PA has a great story about Five-year-old Sam Houghton has been named Britain’s youngest inventor after patenting an idea worthy of Wallace & Gromit. The boy from Buxton, Derbyshire, had the brainwave while watching his father sweep up garden leaves. Dad swapped between two brushes – one to clear up larger leaves and twigs and… Continue reading Young inventor sheddie of the future
According the guardian and others. They hardly fit the description of typical big-time tax dodgers: two middle-aged sisters who stashed wads of cash in cardboard boxes in a garden shed. But despite their quaint methods, the women, who were arrested yesterday, are suspected of masterminding the biggest case of inheritance tax evasion Japan has seen.… Continue reading Sisters hid £29m in shed