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Just a reminder that you can continue adding your shed photos to our Flickr Group, of course if it’s your own shed and not one you just saw out and a bout you can share it on readersheds.co.uk

We have had some great ones added recently and quite a lot of beachhuts which is wonderful.

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Mandy from the Forge and Flagon pub shed told me about their Radio show.

We went on air last night (sunday), it was a big hit. We will be on air for the next 3 Sunday nights from 8 till 9.

We also have sponsorship for the show from Bells Brewery who is kindly donating beer to all of the musicians that are playing for the show in return for a beer ad on the Show, and ASDA Collegues Circle are also sponsoring the Show

The show is available at www.radiolutterworth.com with a live link to listen in to the show.

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Town House TV (the people behind Trisha!) are currently making a show about different obsessions that people have.

The programme is being recorded in Maidstone, Kent so anyone close to
the area would be great but I can provide travel and expenses for people
coming from further away. The programme is all about people who are
obsessed with something, in this case with sheds. The programme is light
hearted and fun, where people are being invited to come along and share
their obsessions and talk about them with others.

The programme is being recorded this week on Wednesday so the sooner I
hear from people the better!

so if you would be intrested then contact Laura Scott-Douglas Assistant Producer Tel: 01603 281043 or email.

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VegPlotting is having a virtual garden openday today, and everyday until September 21. There’s lots to see and do with a chance to win some prizes and some good shed interest too. VP takes us on a tour of her garden and allotment and gives us a peek into her sheds - step in quietly and you might just see the robins nesting. It’s all for a good cause too - Water Aid is VP’s chosen charity, so be sure to drop a couple of quid in the plate as you leave.

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Going away for a few days..

back next week..

so if you share your shed, dont worry It will be live when I return

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Deputydog has a great list of the best (drivable) wooden cars.

My favourite is.

using a technique called ‘cold-moulding’, wood has managed to build an incredible mahogany covered car over the space of 2000 hours, and it even has a wooden chassis. amazingly the 3-wheeler can reach a top speed of 101mph despite owning the engine of a citreon 2cv

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The Mirror reports that sheddie favourite and shed of the year judge Sarah Beeny had a close call while on hols recently.

TV presenter Sarah Beeny had to be rescued from the sea after being caught in a deadly rip-tide.

The embarrassed host of Property Ladder was swept out to sea wearing “a very small G-string” during a break in Tunisia.

Sarah said she had been sunbathing topless when she decided to move to a better spot along the beach and started to walk there along the water’s edge.

But she got caught in the strong current and was carried out to sea.

“I got pulled in by the rip-tide wearing a very small G-string and nothing else,” she said. “I panicked and screamed loudly.”

The 36-year-old host of the Channel 4 property show was eventually rescued “by a gorgeous man built like an Olympic athlete.”

“By this time a huge crowd had gathered along the beach to watch the spectacle of a man carrying an almost naked woman out of the sea,” she said. “I was massively embarrassed.”

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I mentioned that I needed/wanted one of these for shedweek.

and I was sent one.. thanks to the berocca people…. a bit late for shedweek, but always welcome, been busy

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This is a great multiuse shed, I would love one of these (hint hint)

Potting shed

It was designed by my dad from a collation of pictures of ‘fancy’ sheds that I liked in various magazines. Shed is linked by doorway into greenhouse - both of which my family helped me to build it. The shed was originally only going to be a potting shed, but now doubles as a workshop/studio for those creative moments!

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This is grimbsy reports

A Cleethorpes couple’s bar in their back garden, the Beach Hut, will be investigated by officials.

Following the Grimsby Telegraph story featured in yesterday’s paper, North East Lincolnshire Council officers pledged to visit the owners.

As reported, Paul and Angie Snelson, of Cleethorpes, transformed their garden hut into a makeshift bar more than a year ago and invited friends and relatives around for drinks.

Mr Snelson (45) said he used to spend around &pound5,000 per year in food and drinks at his local pub.

But after the smoking ban he decided to build his own beach hut and serve drinks to his mates.

No charge is made and donations are left in a jar instead.

He said: “It is just how it used to be and people can have a smoke and enjoy a drink and a laugh in good company.

“It has caught on and we have relatives who have set up their own beach huts. We are up to beach hut number eight now.”

He added: “We do not charge so it is not against the law.”

This was confirmed by officials from the Government’s department of Media and Culture.

A North East Lincolnshire Council spokesman said: “The council is investigating this story and will be in contact with the owners.

“The last thing we want to see is people thinking it is okay to set up a bar in their own garden.”

thanks to Tim for the headsup

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Looking at my logs and stats and the like, it’s intresting how people find shedblog from google and the others.

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But I would like to know how you heard about us, please leave your comments below and the most witty will win something from my shed…. (no spider mind you)

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Edp24 reports

As a child Michael Whitaker played on Southwold beach and took shelter in the family beach hut, just as his father, his grandmother and his great-grandfather did.

The beach hut was a humble fisherman’s hut in his great-grandfather’s day, and a hut on the very same site stayed in the family for 100 years - since before Southwold had a promenade or even a pier.

In 1986 it was sold, but now after a gap of more than 20 years, the hut is back in the family again. It has been rebuilt over the years - most recently this year, after it was damaged in storms last November - but still stands on the same site as Arthur Benjamin Smith’s hut.

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