Photos of the shed HQ

Was playing around with my zoom lens for my canon 400D
it’s a 55-250 IS lens and just put a copy lens hood onto it…. its an Ok lense, but I really want This one.

anyway here are some shots of the shed.

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This blogger is now ‘relieved’

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

Sheddies how did you find this site?

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

shed base
shed plans
shed of the year
how to build a shed
camping pods
shed insulation
shed paint
shed roofing
garden bar
build your own tardis
erecting a shed
bark chippings
how to move a shed

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)

My boss knows the score

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.

Great pre Shed week traffic - thanks Dr Who

Last week we had a great week in terms of eyeballs looking at the sheds, and it was all thanks to Dr Who, well really to his time machine the TARDIS and some good traffic to the pubsheds and of course the run up to Shed week got some people voting for their favorites and of course people where looing at many pages instead of just one, which is what every website owner wants.

My logs said this…

945,684 Hits ! 32,888 visitors!

You can see what the online community had been saying about the sheds here.

Hopefully we can get some of that traffic back to see the Shed of the year winner, now all I need to do is get my Shedblog readers up and that would be great.

If you have a TARDIS shed you would like to share for next years competition then pop along here.

No electricity and guess whose at fault?

Over the past 24 hours we have not had any electricity over at chez sheddi, after many calls to Mrs Uncle wilco’s brother who knows a few things about that game, we managed to get it down to a fault on the sockets around the house.

So a late night call to a local spark who popped over this morning with his geiger counter like equipment who tested all the wossnames on the circuit breaker, he also concluded that there was a fault on one of the sockets around the house, it could take ages to check each one, then he asked, do you have any outdoor electricity… ah the shed!

so he unconnected the power from the green one and the house, and hey presto we had power in the house again.

The problem was that a bit of damp had got into the shed! so it could have gone up in flames(maybe) anytime.

anyway waiting until a proper isolated system can be added to power the shed again, but its been safely isolated from the rest of the house, so that why i am writing this now.

just to point out, the electricity was added to the shed before I was living here, before it had to be checked out by a qualified electrician by law, so before we will power the shed again, we will be getting Mrs UW brother down to make sure it is all fine.

Talk about sheds in our Forum

Our Forum is finally working (or looks better anyway) so get on there to talk about your shed build now.

you need to be a member of the blog to post.

Interact with the sheds

With all the talk of Social wossname and user interaction and the like, I thought I would find other ways of you sheddies getting involved with readersheds/shedblog and of course Shed week, currently you can just Contact me using the standard form and I will try and answer your email, or post on the Forum or even follow me on twitter, no that’s posh.

But I saw this post on a great blog called makeuseof, It promotes a new tool that allows you to create a suggestion box on your blog, that allows quick feedback from your users.

Skribit

is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.

anyway the widget is in the righthand side of the blog, and below, so give it a go, click on the Question and post something.

Skribit: Social Suggestions

so be gentle and tell me what you want! maybe you want to promote your shed or your event during shed week or even just say hi or ask a shed related question.

Once people have voted for the Questions I will promote the most popular as a post on the blog and try and and answer it for the sheddie.

Portable computing for the shed

I am thinking of getting one of those Asus EE PC for writing in the shed and web browsing.

Asus EE PC

Have any of you sheddies got one, what do you think of it, any tips etc?

Also I would use it for reading books and the like one of those Amazon Kindle

but as I have to wait until it comes out over here in the UK, I think a ultra portable machine would do.