The basildon recorder reports on one of our sheddie and his hope in this years Shed of the year.

Reg’s shed

AN Englishman’s home might be his castle, but for one Southend grandfather it’s his shed that claims the title.

Reg Miller, 64, has spent the past 18 months converting his garden shed into a Caribbean pirate ship paradise, complete with dead man’s chest, rigging and the Jolly Roger.

The shed, which sails under the moniker the Lady Sarah Out of Worthing, is a firm favourite with Mr Miller’s five grandchildren and he has now entered it into the Shed of the Year 2009 competition.

Mr Miller, of Bournemouth Park Road, said: “The grandchildren love it. They think it’s their own captain’s cabin. It’s got everything from muskets, bones and rigging, to its own flag.”

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The Daily UK Metro newspaper theridiculant column online is not convinced that Chris Evans is a shed judge

In their paper versions they do not mention their uncertainty

As long as you sheddies know the truth! but thanks for the coverage everything is welcome to see the best sheds on the web.

I suppose that’s the job of the nationals, hopefully some commuters will want to share their sheds ASAP for the closing date.

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Today in the Times, Kate Muir writes about sheds, sheds week and interviews my good self.

Across the nation, in back gardens and allotments, excitement is in the spring air, for now is the time to enter the Shed of the Year 2009. Your shed need not be expensive, but it has to show ingenuity, eccentricity or cack-handed exuberance to win, if previous competition entries are typical. We shed-lovers — the technical term is “sheddies” — are fascinated by the art and science of hut erection. We can easily spend a couple of hours ogling readers’ sheds online. The Shed of the Year competition is our Cup Final, our Olympics, our Miss World competition.

This report comes to you by laptop from my humble shed in Cricklewood, North London. It’s painted allotment-regulation green, and has a red velvet baroque chair which I found in a skip, and metal shelves which cost a fiver when Woolworths closed. At £99 from Homebase, and 3ft wide, it is the smallest shed on the allotments and was built by drunks on a dim winter afternoon three years ago. It goes without saying that my shed, like all much-loved sheds, is an escape hatch to a different world.

Unlike my life, my shed is simple, calm and wellorganised: tools hung on nails, seeds in boxes, gardening gloves in pairs: everything where it should be. My shed is prosaic, a glorified allotment locker. I shall not be entering it for Shed of the Year, even in the “Normal Shed” category, because there are far greater works out there, many bordering on the insane.

So why not Share your Shed NOW

Over at the Gaurdian, Shed Judge Alex from Shedworking pens his own piece about Shed Working.

Over the last decade we have witnessed the miniaturisation of the office workplace. A cramped outbuilding which once housed lawnmowers and pots can now comfortably be insulated from the cold, fitted with its own electrics, and link you to anywhere in the world. It’s an alternative workplace revolution. It’s shedworking.

So the broadsheets have sheds covered from from all angles this weekend….

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Ruth has emailed me looking for female sheddies for a feature she is writing, can you help, ladies?

If so, please get in touch! I’m writing a feature for Prima magazine about women who own sheds, and am looking for women aged 30 to 55. Whether you use yours for potting and seeding or something more unusual (exercise classes or socialising or relaxing perhaps), please get in touch.

It will involve a telephone interview and a photo shoot.

If you’d like to take part, please email me, Ruth Tierney by 15 January.

Of course any female sheddies out there, please share your shed as we are always on the look out for the girls with sheds.

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I have been emailed this request from Ruth, can any of you lady sheddies help?

I’m writing a feature for Red magazine and am looking for a woman (aged late 20s to early 40s) who loves to escape to her shed on Christmas Day for a bit of peace and quiet. If you know of anyone, please can you let me know asap.
I’d need to do a quick telephone interview, and we’d need to take a photo of them in their shed.

contact tierneyruth AT aol.com

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I know Shed of the year is an online thing and the bloggers and top interweb sites have picked us up ages ago, but now the British press is picking up on it…

The Sun

The Metro

Trumpet of truth

The Express

So hopefully we will get some new sheddies to join the cause.

if you open your local rag tonight/tomorrow and it’s got Tim’s great shed in it, let me know and I will add it to the clippings.

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I was on the Manchester Rawk radio 106.1 Rock Radio this morning talking to their DJ the Moose.

thanks for the opportunity, but they did not play any Rory Gallagher , any way as the future of Planet Rock is in doubt I think I will listen online to Rock Radio for the moment as it does cover the classics.

If you want to interview me about shed week please contact me

Here’s some Rory for you

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The Metro now has featured us again at their metro.co.uk/shedblog page

If you found this blog from today’s metro, thanks for visiting, you can share your shed for Shed of the year here.

If you dont have a clue what I’am on about

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Nell card in the observer reports on Camping pods, they look a good idea if you dont want to pitch up a tent, or stay in a caravan?

I’ve always wanted to sleep in a shed. Years ago, I remember sweeping out the sawdust and scattered Rawl plugs from my dad’s shed, padding out our plastic red sledge with cushions and setting up a bumble bee hospital on the old scarred workbench. I never actually slept there (I was too scared, and it stank of white spirit), so when asked to spend a couple of nights in an over-engineered shed on a campsite in the Lake District, I figured now was my chance to live out my childhood fancy.

The ‘camping pods’ are at Eskdale Camping and Caravanning Club Site, which sits in a valley just outside the village of Boot

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Each Camping Pod sleeps up to four people in a secure, heated wooden shelter. They are made from locally sourced timber and insulated with sheeps wool. The ten Pods have been designed to fit in with the glorious Lakeland countryside around Eskdale.

To find out how to hire one of these camping sheds, visit the Camping and caravaning club site.

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Tom Rawstorne over at the Daily Mail was given a task to build the a £13,000 garden shed.

Argos insists anyone can build its £13,000 super shed. So is the ultimate DIY challenge REALLY that easy?

Day One

Starting point: Four tonnes of wood lies waiting to be constructed

9AM: Chinese philosopher Confucius once noted that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Deep, meaningful stuff. And so it is that when an articulated lorry pulls up outside my house in rural Kent at the start of my flatpack adventure I, too, mark the occasion with some suitably memorable bons mots.

‘Are you sure that’s all for me?’ I ask, weak-kneed, as I take in the fourtonnes of wood loaded onto the vehicle. Warren, the driver, is sure. He’s also sure the lorry won’t fit through the gate into the orchard, where construction is to take place.

Instead, he has to resort to craning the six giant pallets over the hedge. It means every item has to be shifted by hand 100 yards to where the base has been constructed (it’s meant to be concrete or compacted gravel, but I’ve opted instead for a lattice of hefty timbers levelled on concrete blocks).

At least I’m not entirely alone at the moment. Photographer Robin Mayes has turned up to record the feat for posterity. He’s been chosen primarily, of course, for his skills as a lensman, but by fortunate coincidence he also happens to be built like a rugby prop forward. Straight back, bend your knees - and lift!

You can read the rest of the build over at the mail

The shed is from Argos

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