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Home Of The Year Best Eco Home Nominee - Penwhilwr

This ‘Quiet Earth Project’ two storey load-bearing straw bale house; the first in the UK, second in Europe, delivers beyond expectations. With a u value of 0.13, the straw bale walls with thermafleece in the cedar shingled roof are highly insulating, requiring only a wood burner using coppiced wood for heating. The solar panels, thermal system and wind turbine supply all requirements on a 24v system. The house is abundant in natural materials - the floors are wood, slate, glaster limecrete and earthen, with leca insulation. The straw walls are rendered with lime and clay, with a stone turret for the bathroom. All timbers are locally sourced. This is an aesthetically harmonious, chemical-free home which breathes with its owner.

See it here.

The owner and builder lived in a shed in the garden without water and electricity for 8 years while shed built it with the help or the local community

Shed tags: Environment > Shed.tv by Wilco
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dbroox says

I set a webcam up to make a timelapse video while I built my first shed. It’s a pretty boring video, but whatever. Here’s the end result…

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Now that Flickr allows videos, it’s great to see the quality of them.

I love this time lapse sheds by the sea video.

unfortunately the user wont allow it to be embedded in other sites.

Shed tags: Beachhuts > Shed.tv by Wilco
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Fin does “Get over You” by The Undertones.

The Undertones (vocalist Feargal Sharkey, brothers John and Damian O’Neill, both guitarists, bassist Michael Bradley, and drummer Billy Doherty) formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1975. “Get Over You” was on their second EP which reached number 57in the UK charts. It was also on their first album —The Undertones (1979).

Shed tags: Shed.tv > video by Wilco
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Shed Ukulele gnu Fin Raucous has gone and done it again, with all the extras anyone could ask for, wonderful, the best yet - now only if he could do.

Fin puts “Stop The Rock” together by experimenting with video samples recorded in the shed between rain showers.

Originally released in 1999 by that natty 90s dance act Apollo 440 (Apollo Four Forty), Fin had to retreat to the kitchen to lay down the stamping, clapping and table thumping tracks as the noise of the rain on the shed roof was even louder than that made by a large and violently percussive Scotsman.

No ducks were harmed in the making of this product.

Shed tags: Fin Raucous > Shed.tv by Wilco
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I missed the Sport relief Top gear special, but was shocked to hear of the wrecking of a garden shed, the Bucksfree press follow it up.

CRATERS, concrete, tyre tracks and a burning shed are hardly the ingredients that make for a tranquil garden.

But this was the scene five-times Olympic gold medalist, and Marlow Bottom resident, Sir Steve Redgrave was faced with when the BBC’s Top Gear team decided to make over his garden.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond descended on Sir Steve’s quiet country home to make a charitable spoof of the garden make-over show, Ground Force.
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The ‘make-over’ was filmed three weeks ago and was a complete surprise for Sir Steve, who returned home to find his new garden shed on fire, and deep tyre tracks across his lawn.

The show entitled Top Garden Ground Gear Force was made in aid of Sport Relief and was screened tonight on BBC Two.

The team had eight and a half hours to transform the garden

Shed tags: Shed.tv by Wilco
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Those nice people over at SKY emailed me to get a quote about sheds, normal I thought, then they explained why, this sheddie wanted SkyHD in his shed, and looks like it’s been setup, so well done Sheddie and “my quote” is at the bottom..! Looks like a great retreat, maybe Alan can share it here.

Alan Cook, aged 58, from Market Harborough has given his shed the ultimate high-tech makeover with a bit of help from Sky’s technicians, transforming it into his very own private paradise.

Complete with mini gym, games console, fridge, lazy-boy armchair, Sky HD, broadband and telephone, his pimped up 3m by 2m will no doubt be the envy of men nationwide.

Mr Cook explains: “My wife always joked that I used to spend more time in the shed than I did with her. However, once she realised I could keep all my boys toys under one roof, whilst she has the run of the house without me getting under her feet, she soon realised what a bonus it was!”

The techno-tastic utopia came to the attention of Sky’s Installation Team when they received Mr Cook’s unusual request for Sky HD to be installed in his shed.

As Steve Brockwell, the engineer who installed Mr Cook’s system explains: “We’ve had a fair few bizarre requests from customers over the years, but I’ve never seen anything like this. We’re just glad that we were able to help him bring his sanctuary bang up to date. With all his shed gizmos, he may never have to leave it again!”

It’s not just Mr Cook enjoying the benefits, as his wife, Jackie added: “Now Alan’s managed to get even HD installed into his shed, I never see him anymore! But at least I get to watch what I want in the living room!”

As Uncle Wilco, ‘Head Sheddie’ of www.readersheds.co.uk explains: “The garden shed has long been a place to get away from it all, and we’re increasingly hearing about men turning into what you might call ‘Shedonists’. Mr Cook’s shed sounds wonderful and shows that the shed can also be a space for people to indulge their technical whims as they surf the internet and watch TV. As Mr Cook has shown, it can be a sanctuary, a haven for men to escape the stresses and strains of modern life, and indulge in some purely Shedonistic ‘me time’.”

As seen in the metro and the Sun without my quote.

If you see it anywhere else let me know!

Shed tags: garden shed > Shed.tv > Sheds > Sky HD by Wilco
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The wonderful sheddie FinRaucous is back on youtube with a great rendition of Love Machine
Originally by Girls Aloud (2004) but also covered by Arctic Monkeys, played in his shed on a Ukulele & Tea Chest.

Shed tags: Shed.tv by Wilco
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According to annonava and others

Kenneth Branagh’s latest premiere will be in a 23-seat cinema in an old railway carriage.

Alien Love Triangle will finally bring down the curtain on La Charrette, in Gorseinon, near Swansea.

Wear and tear means the tiny cinema has become too costly to maintain, reports the BBC.

Saturday’s premiere of the Danny Boyle film has been organised by odd critic Mark Kermode for BBC2’s The Culture Show.

He wrote in The Guardian: “They deserved a memorable send-off, and in a rash moment The Culture Show promised to give them one. A world premiere! With stars!”

After the premiere La Charrette will be dismantled and may be moved to a heritage park in the Gower.

Shed tags: Shed.tv > Sheds by Wilco
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I love sitcom,“ says 19 year old writer Tim Dawson. “So why isn’t there a show that talks about life from my perspective? That talks about being young – openly, honestly, truthfully. And I mean properly young – a teenager. Loving for the first time, turning cans into bongs, fancying your history teacher, dealing with those pesky unwanted erections-in-public places? Well - now there is.”

is he talking about garden shed in the last line I have never heard a garden shed called an unwanted erection in public anyway its all about a new BBC sitcom.

Coming of Age is a world first for TV comedy – a sitcom about teenagers created and written by a teenager.

Jas, Ollie, Matt, Chloe and DK live in Abingdon. Their lives revolve around college, their bedrooms and, because they are always getting thrown out of the local pub, Ollie’s garden shed.

So sounds like the garden shed is a cross generation wossname, as we all like a drink in the shed.

If anyone is going to the recordings, make sure you take some photos of the shed.

Shed tags: BBC > Shed.tv by Wilco
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