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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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This is london reports.

Allotments could offer the solution to London’s obesity epidemic.

Council chiefs are offering residents more than 300 subsidised plots for as little as £10 a year in the hope of improving their diets and giving them more exercise.

Londonwide the popularity of allotments has soared, with waiting lists of up to a decade in some places. Now Harrow council, which has surplus spaces, has decided to offer hundreds of people the chance to grow their own for half price.

Councillor Susan Hall said: “I urge anyone who doesn’t have a garden to sign up. It’s a fantastic hobby that delivers a wide range of benefits, including the ability to grow your own pesticide-free fresh fruit and vegetables as well as providing a vital habitat for wildlife.” She said the allotments were particularly targeted at families who live in flats and properties without gardens.

“This is a great way of getting children out in the open air and gives them a chance to nurture something,” she said.

“It’s fantastic exercise - much better than being stuck in front of the TV - and people also get to eat organic food.”

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According the PA

Green-fingered Charlotte Church is desperate to own an allotment, she has revealed.

The multi-millionaire singer-turned-TV host said she already grows her own vegetables and collects eggs laid by her hens.

Church, 22, who is expecting her second baby in November with rugby star boyfriend Gavin Henson, said: “I love gardening. Gavin and I grow a lot of our own vegetables and we have some hens for fresh eggs. We’ve got dogs and geese as well,” she told Hello! magazine.

Well I hope she will share her shed when she gets it.

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Not it’s not something from the Austrilian sheddies (groan), a Polish builder in germany has built this house.

Picture EPA

According to the Sun.

The Pole is building an upside-down house in Trassenheideon on the island of Usedom, Germany.

A company from Poland want to complete the family house by the end of August.

All furniture is to be installed upside-down and the house will be used for exhibition.

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This will be the odd post in the style of home and garden (maybe not) that will be a post about me whingeing about my failues as a gardener.

Today it’s about slugs, in Welsh Wales we have been getting lots and lots and blod%y lots of slugs in the wilco garden (and elsewhere Iam told!)

My little gastropod mollusk enemies have done the following damage so far

1) Eaten my strawberries
2) Munched their way through my courgettes
3) Decemated my peppers
4) Starting making their evil way to shed to see if they can get my broadbean plants before I plant them out (ok Iam late but iam a total beginner)

This had to stop, so took the advice of Bob flowerdew from this organic gardening book.

I bough some copper tape from ebay, this seems to have worked for my potatoes I grow them in bags, so put the tape on around the bag, but they pesky beggers are still around looking to nibble on any new plant.

So I have decided to take another more germ warefare route and bought some nematodes from Unwins, but you can buy it on ebay as well.

The control of slugs is very difficult, slug pellets are effective ,but can have serious effects on birds, pets and wildlife, They are also only effective on slugs at the surface. By treating with Nemaslug® it is specific to slugs and will not affect birds, pets or any wildlife and is effective both above and below ground. Nemaslug® is a naturally occurring parasitic nematode of slugs - Phasmarhabditis Hermaphrodita. The nematode enters the slug through the slug mantle - the saddle like structure on its back. Once inside, the nematode releases a bacterium which multiply and this is what the nematode feeds on. The nematodes multiply and within 3-5 days the slug stops feeding and will burrow underground to die.

I used the stuff last night so will let you know how I get on next week.

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Not posted a selection of great sheds for a while, so here’s a shedfull.

Beachy Shed

Smallbeerfruit on the Beach

Me shed

Wondershed

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I have a nice little beachhut birdhouse (nearly a shed) hanging from my shed, to try and attract our featherd friends to the garden (not much, luck thanks to next doors cats)

but I was reading my emails, and this popped into the wossname.

Caravan Birdhouse

This brilliant rustic birdhouse is a great gift for all you nature lovers, Bill Oddie types and full-on fans of ornithology, as it puts a humorous twist on a traditional garden accessory. But that wouldn’t be hard because most birdhouses are hideously twee eyesores that instantly give your garden that old biddy look. And you wouldn’t want that, would you?

No, what you want is this seriously ironic birdhouse shaped just like an old clapped out caravan. You know, the kind of thing you might see Bernard Bresslaw and Windsor Davies hanging out in circa ‘75.

If you fancy one you can buy it or the washing machine version from firebox.

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Both sheddies Simon and John are stawlets of the shedblog and are doing a great job sharing their expertise with the sheddies, you can read about their tips.

External Cladding Question

Shed insulation and heating question

Of course if you have any other question plese create a thread and hopefully someone will know the answer.

Much thanks to the guys are sharing the wossname

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The Sundaysun report on a couple living in shed.

A COUPLE who lost their home after failing to keep up mortgage payments are living in a shed.

Debbie Galloway, 31, and husband Philip, 42, are sleeping in the hut at a relative’s allotment.

They claim accommodation offered by Hartlepool Council is run-down.

Their six children are living with relatives.

The pair began sleeping rough after complaining about conditions in several properties offered to them.

They had lived in a three-bedroomed semi-detached home for 13 years.

Debbie said: “All of them have been run down and in a bad way.

“The allotment is cleaner than half the houses they have sent us to. It’s disgusting. We have got six kids. They are all separated and it’s not fair on them.”

A council spokesman said “Given that she has been classified as intentionally homeless, social housing is not a realistic option.

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The Huddersfield Daily Examiner has a good piece about a sheddie with another great pub shed, plus they have a quote from me too!

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Rod Bowles, of Wooldale doesn’t need to catch a plane to sample the atmosphere of a Greek taverna; he just opens the door of his garden shed. ANDREW BALDWIN reports

FORGET whisky in the weedkiller bottle and a padlock on the door. Sheds are no longer just a retreat for hen-pecked husbands but a place to dream.

Shed-lovers – or sheddies as they’re known – have begun to convert their sacred shed spaces into everything from saunas and cinemas to recording studios and laboratories.

But Rod Bowles has something few people would expect in the garden of a house at Wooldale, a Greek taverna.

Guests don’t trip over the mower or sit on a sack of spuds, but relax on comfy chairs and sip ice-cold beers.

The shed has a fully-fitted bar, furniture, fridges and a television for the sport, making it a structure which certainly has the wow factor on a balmy afternoon.

Rod, 61, first kitted out his bar-in-a-garden about eight years ago after retiring as landlord of the Huntsman pub above Holmfirth.

He got the idea after being impressed by the bars when he visited friends who live in Corfu.

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Well considering the downturn on beach huts the other day.

The daily post reports

Beach huts from verymissberry

A BEACH hut with its own patch of sand was snapped up for a staggering £85,000 by a mystery buyer.

The hut, which has no running water or electricity, lies on the beach in the sought-after coastal resort of Abersoch.

The sale of plot 12 at Porthmawr, described as a “detached beach hut on Abersoch main beach lying amidst a row of similar huts along the wonderful stretch of sandy beach which overlooks Cardigan Bay to the St Tudwal’s Islands”, for a record price comes despite the downturn in property prices.

Last night rural communities pressure group Cymuned called for a “beauty-spot tax” so that the local community will benefit from the huts.

Estate agent spokesman Martin Lewthwaite of Beresford Adams Countrywide, Abersoch, confirmed the hut was sold to an anonymous buyer prior to an auction in Llandudno next week but refused to confirm the sale price.

He said: “The hut was sold for substantially more than the guide price of £75,000. The buyers wanted the use of the hut during the main summer season. Prices for these huts are holding up very well, there is always a demand for huts on the beach.

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