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Sorry it’s been a while, up my wossname at work, and the sheds is coming third in my time.

This week, Al and his meccano shed, I don’t condone shed envy but.. its a great looking shed which looks much loved and well used.

it makes my neighbour jealous because he wishes his shed was as big as mine.shed jealousy is a terrible thing

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Still high on the shedness of shedweek, but came down to earth with a bump, when I went back to work last week.

But my boss, I think knows how I feel, he got me this mug, from the wonderful Dyffryn gardens

It says I’d rather be in my shed but is tea soaked.

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I’m a big fan of Giles cartoons. Giles was the Express cartoonist for nearly fifty years and a great cartoonist of the common man. He poked fun at politicians, judges, traffic wardens, garage owners, seaside landladies, shop keepers, and the self-important and ridiculous wherever they were to be found, but he had a genius for the mundane, and sheds featured strongly in his cartoons. This is one of my favourites. It’s the cover illustration of the Series 31 annual and for me is the perfect home workshop. I hope you like it. The cartoons are copyright Daily Express.

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The Metro which is nearly overtaking the telegraph in it’s number of sheds stories, reports on young people living in sheds due to the credit crunch and they use a picture of a cabin to represent their finds.

It used to be just fairies that lived at the bottom of the garden but it seems the credit crunch has put paid even to that.

Young couples unable to afford their own place are setting up home in glorified sheds in their parents’ back gardens instead.

The two-bedroom cabins – called ‘kids digs’ – cost less than £40,000, do not need planning permission and can be built in three weeks.

They may even add a holiday feel.

Sales in the chalets are booming among twentysomethings as a home of their own becomes an increasingly distant dream, said property company Custom Timber Build UK.

It could spark a return to 1950s-style living, when several generations of a family lived on a single plot of land, said director Bill Allen.

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Tim the winner of Shed of the Year sent me a lovely email to say thanks but not only to me, it’s like an oscar speech! but much appreciated.

some thank yous;

Uncle Wilco for masterminding the whole wossaname and being forever on call if needed, and despite having to drag himself from his sick bed saw Shed week through to a successful conclusion despite the difficulties caused by my unintentional “vanishing act”

My fellow contestants especially those who reached the final and those in the pub class who didn’t. Your good wishes were much appreciated.

There were quite a few who I thought could beat me and I could not have grumbled had I lost to many of you. I hope I can prove to be a worthy winner and uphold the honour of the pub class and sheds in general until I am relieved of the title next year.

I have no intention to try again but I hope the rugby pub will inspire even more and better entrants next year.

Deborah Dee the magazine journalist who saw the rugby pub on the website, liked it , commented that it had a “wow factor” and then wrote an article for the co-op magazine (printed circa 1.4 million, circulated to membership circa 500,000). The article came out while the votes were being taken and no doubt made a considerable difference to the voting, although I was canvassing hard as well. What about Deborah for the judging panel next year?

The many friends and supporters who have voted tirelessly whenever possible.

The other people I emailed who have no interest in sheds or the competition but who receive canvassing emails from me just the same My relatives who have never stopped encouraging me

The worthy sponsors Gardenbuildingsdirect, who I am looking forward to hearing from next week!

Tony from last years Roman Temple and the other very worthy judges who said such nice things about my shed

And finally ( I hope I have not left any one out) My wife who has to put up with all my eccentricities but who definitely is allowed in the shed

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Right, sheddies, one of the confusing thing (and there was many) about Shed of the Year 2008 was which category to put your shed into.

I have currently set up the following categories for shed entry for the 2009 compo.

Normal Shed
Eco Shed (new for 2009)
Garden Office
Cabin
Workshop
Summerhouse
Pub Shed
Studio
Tardis
Hut
Other

General wossname, says I should cut it down… so it’s easier to handle.

remember you also have the option of saying if your Shed is a UK shed (the default) or an International shed.

but I need your help! Its a deli-lama for me as I don’t want to trim the fat but its confusing to get the public to understand how the voting works (let alone the judges)

So please make your wossname felt here just comment.

Also if the sheddie does not add a minimum of two images (inside/out), then I wont show them on the site, do you agree with that?

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The shed friendly Telegraph reports.

A beach hut at one of the Queen’s favourite seaside beauty spots is on the market for £45,000.

The hut, which has no mains electricity, gas or water and cannot sleep people overnight, is so expensive because it is the first one to come up for sale in more than five years at Holkham, Norfolk.

The Royal family had a hut in woodland overlooking the beach for around 70 years until it was burned down by vandals in 2003.

Prince Philip also liked to cook barbecues on the veranda of the Royal hut and sometimes slept overnight in its bunk beds.

But the Royals have visited less in recent years since a nearby section of the sandy beach was made an official nudists’ beach.

The latest hut is being sold by estate agents Belton Duffey.

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Do you have great photo of a shed?

If you can’t share your shed, then you can add your shed photos to our popular Flickr Shed group and you can win a prize this time next year! I have decided to make it open all year round.

Here are some great images this year

lets hope we can top the wonderful shed based photos for SW09

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Tim and his wife Kathleen are interviewed in their local paper the Suffolk Free Press

WHEN Tim and Kathleen McNeill have friends round for drinks they know the ideal place to entertain them…. the garden shed.

But this is no ordinary shed. Guests won’t be tripping over the mower or sitting on a sack of spuds, but relaxing on elegant sofas and sipping ice cool beers in the 2008 Shed of the Year.

Retired solicitor Tim designed and built the octagonal wood-clad shed around three years ago and kitted it out as a pub.

It has a fully-fitted bar, cane furniture, fridges, a ceiling fan, windows in the roof, a hammock, seagrass matting on the floor and double doors which open out onto the garden.

The former Sudbury rugby player entered the competition on the readerssheds.co.uk website after he was told about it by a friend.

You can view Tim’s shed here

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The first of my Just sheds post after Shed Week, I may do them on Tuesday,Wednesday or Thursday, I will just surprise you.

This week a great Summerhouse called Wilfred Pendle’s Summerhouse

“This summer house was bought by my grandfather, Wilfred Pendle, sometime in
the 50s or early 60s and was situated in his garden in Witham in Essex. It
was used as a playroom by my sister and me (at one point it contained a pair
of BOAC aircraft seats, so it became a spaceship from time to time as
well…). In his later years, my grandfather would sit in it to enjoy the
afternoon sun. When he passed away, my parents decided they would move the
summer house to their garden in Bath. Although rather heavy, the
construction of the building is very simple. There are seven pieces: a
floor, one solid wall, two walls with windows, one with windows and double
doors, and a two-part pitched roof. The structure was so well designed, it
slots together, requiring only eight bolts to secure it.”

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A lovely wossname of the tags on this blog.

and heres the Latest SHeds

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Sorry for the delay.

To be honest I can’t decide…

My favorite is Tiki-hut

Alex’s favorite is the Eco Shed

so to prolong shed week! and just for some fun, as there is no international prize, tell us which your favorite International shed is in the comments if you are not shedded out.. You can view all the international sheddies (ie where the sheddie has said it’s not in the UK, when they shared them)

and I promise next year the International sheddies who put in as much effort as our UK sheds, will have a proper competition with judges and prizes.

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