Just Sheds : Flickr Competition are you in it to win it?

This Sunday (5th July) is the closing date to add your shed photos to our Just Sheds Flickr group.

Then next week I will pick a selection of my favorites and get the sheddies on shedblog.co.uk to vote for their favorites

The winner will then get a Flickr pro account (or extension) or amazon voucher to the equivalent value

So could it be one of these?

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Shed Week 2009 Interviews

I have been lucky enough to get some great guest posts on the state of the Shedosphere and will be publishing them for shed week (starting Monday 6th July!)

They include post from such experts and shed lovers as

    Debra PrinzingA Writer who knows her Posh & stylish Sheds

    @dkprinzing

    Alex Johnston Shed Judge and Shedworking guru (nuff said)
    Michael JanzenDesigner of Tiny houses!

    @MichaelJanzen

    Rico DanielsShed Judge and…

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Shed of the year 2009 : The Finalists announced

You voted in your thousands and me and the sheddies thank you.

Well here are the sheds that made it to the final list, now its up to our judges to vote on their favorites and they winner will be announced during shed week 2009! (Wed 8th July 2009 to be exact)

Normal Shed Category Winner
THE APPLE CRATE Carol and Paul,The bottom of our garden

Eco-shed Category Winner
Rammed…

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Designs for shed of the year 2010? - Free shed plans

if you are reading this as google found the words Free shed plans in the headline.. then welcome, otherwise you are a regular reader and clicked as you after a freebie plan to build a shed for next years competition?

The reason for this post is the lack of quality free(or open source) shed designs out there in the interwebs.

But someone who I read and follow…

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89 year old women to lose allotment for growing flowers

The telegraph & South Wales Argos report

An 89-year-old woman faces having her allotment of 30 years taken away by a council because she has started growing flowers instead of vegetables, she said.

Edith Avery said she was told by Rogerstone Community Council that her plot, just a few feet from her back door, would be cleared this week because she had not complied with regulations.

Mrs Avery,…

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Just Sheds : 4941 Flickr shed pics and counting

Will we reach the 5000 mark for Shed Week?

Some great ones that are slightly odd but wonderful all the same

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PUNKS NOT DAD ALBUM AND SINGLE LAUNCH PARTY!!!

SATURDAY JULY 4th UPSTAIRS AT DEMPSEYS, CARDIFF, 8pm till late…

Support from Bec and Beth of the HOT PUPPIES plus DJ, BIG PRIZE quizzes etc etc

Entry £5 (or give us a tenner and we’ll throw in a copy of the album too!)

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Man builds plane in garden shed

According to the Irish examier

NOT everyone can say they built a light aircraft in their garden shed, but that’s exactly what a man from East Cork has done.

You could say it was like putting together an Airfix kit for grown-ups.

It took 51-year-old Peter Sheehy a little over a year to complete and now he can’t wait to get up in the air.

However, before he could…

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Shed sourcing for Shed Week #shedweek

This is my 1498th Post! on the shedblog! update in fact it was 1499th!

If you are on Twitter you may be familiar with hastags so I was thinking we should have something to celebrate shed week and get input from the shed twitter community, a bit like crowd sourcing but with a sheddie angle

So I will periodically until and during shed week posting questions on…

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Lovely Lovely Sheds - Calm now

You may have noticed the panic in my eyes if you were near me the last 48 hours.

I had major issues with the readersheds shed server but hopefully it’s sorted now..(touch shed roof, turn around) and I am sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to you sheddies.

It also means I am a few days behind calculating the shed votes.

So the judges should get…

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