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Get your entries in for Shed of the Year 2009

Posted on March 31st, 2009

You have just a little bit over a month to get your entries in for this years Shed of the Year 2009 competition as May 3 2009 is the closing date.

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So with the weather getting better and the nights longer or something in the UK, then it’s time to finish your shed and take some photos and add it to readersheds.

Why not Share your shed like the previous two winners Tim & Tony, you need to add your shed here, and add the following information.

The name of the shed
Shed type – Is it [Normal] [Eco-Sheds] [Garden Office] [Cabin] [Workshop] [Unique] [Summerhouse] [Pub] [Studio] [Tardis] [Hut] [Wooden] [Other]
Your Name and other details.
Location of shed
Features
Info

and you need to add a minimum of two images, inside and outside but the judges will get a better idea if you add around a dozen of the features etc if you have a video on youtube then you can add that as well.

On May 4: Public voting for Shed of the Year begins, so get your family & friends to vote, then on June 21 pubic voting ends and the top shed in each category will be presented to the Celebrity Judges, who will have their go at seeing which shed will be Shed of the year to be announced on the July 8.

So come on sheddies Share your shed

I am still in discussion with various partners what the prizes will be given to the winning shed, but being shed of the year is a great start!

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Couple create town where they first met in shed

Posted on March 31st, 2009

Childhood sweethearts Stanley and Christine Buck have created a model of a 1950s town to remind them of “happy times”.

The retired couple, of Whittlesey, Cambs, have spent much of the past 20 years crafting the MDF replica.

The 1:24inch scale model features a variety of places that hold memories for them, including the coffee shop in Greenford, London, where they met in 1957.

Mrs Buck, 68, said she and her husband, a 75-year-old former factory worker, had spent thousands of hours on the project.

“I used to do it all day, as well as the housework,” said the mother-of-two, who has nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

“I’m the artistic one and he makes the buildings.”

She said the model, which is 24ft in length and 2ft deep, was based on 1950s architecture and fashions.

“It’s a collection of buildings we’ve known or that remind us of places that we’ve been to,” she said. “We get pleasure from looking at it. It has memories for us.

“It’s more about the period than any particular place.”

The cinema where they went on a date is included in the town centre model, along with houses, flats and shops.

The couple, who celebrate their golden wedding next year, have welcomed visitors from neighbouring counties to view their work, which is stored in a garden shed.

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Do you want a Surf Shack in your garden?

Posted on March 30th, 2009

Those lot over at Garden Buildings Direct have got a great little beach hut/surf shed for sale

Surf Shack a great authentic looking building ideal to store all of your surf and water sports gear. Modelled on a traditional surf shack it features a large amount of useable space and includes wide, double doors for easy access.

They have a good interactive wossname on the page as well, but you really need to see it in situa, a gerat idea to show you the features of the shed

This is not a sponsoerd post, but if you do buy from them I get some money as an affiliate.

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“We shall fight in the fields and in the streets”

Posted on March 30th, 2009

Alex foxed us with his weekly name that shed thing… and this weeks was Winston Churchill’s shed

and one of his shedworkers Martyn Cox talks about it

I recently snapped this shed at Chartwell in Kent. It is none other than the shed once owned by wartime PM Winston Churchill. I like to imagine that in between meetings with Stalin and Roosevelt, rallying the RAF during the Battle of Britain and helping to plan the D-Day landings, that Churchill could find time to potter in his shed, rearranging the shelves, filling jars with screws and making sure his packets of seeds were in alphabetical order.”

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