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Sheds are from Heaven?

Well here on shedblog and readersheds have always know that sheds are special and the general media has started to pick it up again, which is good, The indypendant has a great article on how sheds are helping the current UK credit crunch.

Ten years ago, it went upmarket and became an outsourced office or library for groovy rus in urbe metropolitans; powered by subterranean cables, it featured electric lights, wall heaters, a telephone and sockets for computer, printer and hi-fi – a warm, humming, creative environment, where you could spend hours in contentedly self-delighted browsing, musing and occasional guilty bursts of playing air guitar along with Slash or Mark Knopfler.

Today, it’s become a display cabinet of technological sophistication: a home cinema, a cocktail bar, a personalised, chill-out, son-et-lumière zone of wistful shadows and ambient mood music. Some owners have gone so far as to install a chaise longue, a bed, a fridge and Gaggia espresso machine to replicate, only a few feet from their home, the feel of a very upmarket hotel room.

of course some sheds are like this, but we know a shed can be anything, as long as it’s the retreat that we all want.

read more here.

shed from indy

now all we need to do is get some of those posh sheddies to share their sheds for Shed of the year.

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Man finds live grenade in shed when knocking it down

A man today told of his narrow escape after finding a live grenade in a shed he was about to knock down.

Bomb disposal experts were called to Paul Fittock’s home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire to detonate the Second World War device he found gathering dust on a shelf.

Mr Fittock, 33, only discovered the device in rafters of the old wooden shed because he was carrying out a final inspection before sledgehammering it down.

Mr Fittock, who bought the nearby house six months ago, had just gained planning permission to raze the dilapidated building to the ground.

RAF officers placed the device in a metal box and took it to a quarry to be detonated. Police briefly sealed the road off for safety.

The computer engineer told the Gloucestershire Echo: “There was no mistaking what it was so I got out of there quickly and called the police.

“If I hadn’t seen it and started knocking the building down it could have easily dropped to the floor. Who knows what could have happened?”

Next door neighbour Amanda Wiltshire said: “It’s the most exciting thing to have happened since I’ve lived here!”

Shed news in briefs

Staff at a DIY store could be facing disciplinary action after pictures showing them wearing nothing but their work aprons were posted on an internet networking site.

Videos showing workers play-fighting in the aisles of B&Q, in Hartcliffe, Bristol, were also put up on Facebook, it was claimed.

The company has launched an internal inquiry after bosses saw the images, which have now been removed from the site.

COMPOSTABLE BAG
The Co-op is launching a 6p shopping bag which can be thrown on a compost heap when it wears out.
Bosses say the bag – made of polyester and cornstarch – is the UK’s “first fully-accredited home compostable carrier”.
They say the bag’s popularity will be tested at selected stores in East Anglia before it is offered nationwide. The Co-op says stores taking part in the trial will not offer free plastic bags.

Sisters hid £29m in shed

According the guardian and others.

They hardly fit the description of typical big-time tax dodgers: two middle-aged sisters who stashed wads of cash in cardboard boxes in a garden shed. But despite their quaint methods, the women, who were arrested yesterday, are suspected of masterminding the biggest case of inheritance tax evasion Japan has seen.

Tax officials believe Hatsue Shimizu, 64, and Yoshiko Ishii, 55, hid almost ¥6bn (£29m) inherited from their businessman father after his death in 2004, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said.

The national tax agency said the women had declared only a tiny fraction of their ¥7.5bn inheritance, avoiding taxes on the rest that would have come to ¥2.86bn.

The women are suspected of keeping most of their windfall in boxes and paper bags in a shed next to their house in Osaka, western Japan. “We have confiscated 50 cardboard boxes,” the newspaper quoted a tax official as saying after inspectors raided 10 locations in the city.

The Weather and Sheds - updated

If you have had any shed related incidents with this weather then let me know, and photos of your shed being blown away, demolished or better still holding out against the weather, then contact me, or put them up on the Flickr shed group.

There are reports from around the country about shed incidents.

Our very Own Alex, has had weather issues.

Above is Shedworking HQ, entry barred by the neighbour’s Ceanothus tree, ripped off a foot from the ground which is a pity as its blue flowers are extremely pretty more


A spokeswoman said the council received reports of three trees falling in the south of the county, and a garden shed collapse in Wiston.

and the insurers give some good advice, but it’s probly too late now

“Also, have a quick check for any loose tiles or slates and make sure shed or conservatory windows and doors are tightly shut. And if you have a garage, use it.”

The shed show at the tate modern

Well i missed this great example of sheds and art, shedart I believe its called!

But a wonderful flickr user cardinalbird, has posted some great photos up about the show.

The Shed Show!

The Shed Show!

if anyone has any more info about the show at the Tate Modern , please let me know

Signal box was shed, now twitchers hide

The BBC report on this Signal box that has had many lives.

A Victorian railway signal box which closed more than 40 years ago has been given a new lease of life as a hide for bird watchers.

Until recently it was used as a garden shed in Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys, but needed a £10,000 restoration.

Cameras will be fitted to nest boxes so birdwatchers can watch from the hide.

Built in 1891, the signal box was used on the Cambrian line in Newbridge-on-Wye, but when the railway closed in 1962 it began life as a garden shed.

Mothers’ Day ruined thanks to spiders?

The shed’s best friend the Spider is being blamed on ruining Mothers’ Day for a flourists as reported by annienova


Creative Commons License photo credit: Will Fuller

Thousands of Mothers’ Day flowers had to be destroyed after florists discovered they were infested with spiders.

The roses and carnations were being prepared for Sunday when shocked shop assistants realised they were crawling with spiders and infested with eggs.

A waste disposal firm was called in to take the blooms away, reports Sky News

“When the van driver arrived at our waste depot with the flowers, he looked terrified,” said Biffa waste firm manager David Graham.

He said: “I’ve never seen a driver so keen to unload. We employ some big burly fellas but none of them were keen to go near this consignment.”

Experts say the spiders were common British house spiders and were completely harmless but still not the sort of surprise mums would have expected on Mothers’ Day.

Table tennis sheddie olympic hopeful


credit: oswaldo

The Times has this story about an 18 year Table Tennis player and his hope for Gold in 2012 Olympics

Knight was first spotted by this newspaper playing in a garden shed in Wandsworth in the summer of 2002 along with three young friends from council estates in London. The boys would travel to the shed - owned by a well-wisher - after school and honed their techniques under the guidance of Gideon Ashison, a former part-time library assistant and an inspirational coach.

“It was obvious that Darius had a special talent,” Ashison said. “The problem is that we could not afford decent facilities so the shed was the only option. The boys used to spend afternoons and school holidays there, with precious little room to swing their rackets. But they had incredible desire to learn and improve.”

Mens’ sheds

I have read about these before and many a sheddi have asked me to post about them, and think it’s a great idea and something that should be happening in the allotments and sheds around the UK.

And ABC.net.au have a good story about them today.

Right across Australia Mens Sheds have been popping up in small towns and communities.

They are places where retired and out of work blokes come together to share their skills and do whatever men do, in their sheds.

They get their hands dirty, talk about life, generate ideas and create something useful.

This simple idea has proven to have huge outcomes including combating men’s health problems of isolation, loneliness and depression.

and of course the very good Australian Men’s Sheds Association