Geoff & Rita appear in an episode of shed judge Sarah Beenys – Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare  from Rish Hall – Sarah and Husband Graham Swift visited the The Plum Tree Arms – to get some inspiration for a shed/pub like room in their grand manor – you can see the episode on 17th November 2011 on Channel 4.

Here is their My Sheddie interview.

Sheddies name

Geoff & Rita Clark

Shed name

The Plum Tree Arms

Selfbuild or off the shelf shed?

This summerhouse was bought from a local shed manufacturer an erected in a day.

Why have you got a shed? uses etc

The Plum Tree Arms was originally built as a summerhouse ( I had to cut down a plum tree to be able to erect the structure, hence the name Plum Tree Arms ) but my wife said we could utilise it for my grandaughters christening if I constructed a bar. As I normally don’t do things by half, I set to and built a basic bar for the christening in August 2008 but continued to add to it for the next couple of years until I finally finished it as a traditional village pub based on a few hostelries around, and in the village in which I live. All the pumps work including the lager pumps with cooler and Co2 gas. We use it regularly for meals, domino and darts tournaments ( normally 4 or 5 retired work collegues and 4.5 gallons of Wold Top Bitter ) drinks with friends, New Years Eve, charity events and as a meeting venue for The Dick Turpin Scooter Club of which there are six members, all classic Lambretta owners. I’ve recently fitted a woodburning stove instead of the calor gas stove

How would you describe your shed?

a Typical Engish cricket pavillion with a traditional English pub inside.

Future Shed plans

The shed is more or less finished now with only a few minor adjustments and additions. An old round wrought iron table, brass hand and foot rails and bar skittles.

What word would you use to sum up Sheds

Every man should have a shed.

If you would like to feature in My Sheddie then please fill in this Q & A

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Shed of the year judge Sarah Beeny has returned to our screens with Restoration Nightmare – But later in the series sheddie Geoff Clark is featured.

The Plum tree Arms will be featured in episode 5 of Sarah Beeny’s Renovation Nightmare on 17th November 2011

Once we know more about what the Beeny got up to will post.

Sarah Beeny and husband Graham Swift continue their battle to breathe new life into their listed 97-room mansion in Yorkshire.

This second series focuses on the couple’s struggles to restore all the state rooms and further bedrooms of their Georgian house, on an increasingly tight budget. It also delves into the fascinating social and architectural history of Rise Hall and shows how to restore and decorate – on both a grand scale and tight budget.

Graham and Sarah are passionate about saving Rise Hall not just as a family home but also for the local community.

Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare provides a rare glimpse into how the property guru juggles work, life, her family and an ambitious renovation project.

How will Sarah deal with a slew of problems, setbacks and the tribulations that viewers have seen her bemoan in other property developers over the years?

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I am very pleased to announce that Sheddies favourite and TV property expert (amongst many other things) Sarah Beeny has agreed once more to be a judge for Shed of the year 2012.

What Sarah says about the competition

Every year shed owners show us that their enthusiasm for a unique building at the bottom of the garden is not abating – especially the lady sheddies who are again showing the men how to do it and are creating wonderful spaces that anyone would love to relax or even work in.

Well done to them all and I look forward to seeing what they can do in the 2012 Shed of the Year competition.

This will be the Sixth Year that the Beeny has agreed to take part – she has supported our campaign to get the sheddies of Britain recognised and first joined the shed team back in the heady days of 2007 when I first started the competition.

So I hope you all welcome Sarah as a judge.

Since then we have seen a massive jump in sheddies doing up their sheds and showing them off - from Pub Sheds & TARDIS sheds to the Eco sheds, the more traditional Workshops and Summerhouses & Cabins and of course the garden offices and finally the category that seems to sum up you sheddies – Unique sheds.

And now is a great time with this so called warm weather in the UK – to get out to the garden and pimp up your shed and share it over at readersheds.co.uk

There will be more announcements over the coming months in terms of a main sponsor who will provide a cash prize for the ultimate shed of the year which of course will be held during Shed Week in July 2012.

SO can any sheddie comepete with last years Winner Jon and his

Songs from the shed

or any of our wonderfull previous winners

About Sarah:

Sarah set up her own property development and investment companies at the age of 24 along with her brother, and her partner Graham (now husband). With her business a success, Sarah was approached to be the presenter of Channel 4′s prime time show Property Ladder.

Enjoying the opportunity to bring property to the nation, Sarah has fronted many other shows such as Pay Off Your Mortgage, Streets Ahead and Britain’s Best Home, as well as being a regular contributor to magazines such as Homebuyer, New Woman and At Home. Sarah is a regular writer for The Sunday Times and has written several best selling books, as well as writing a blog for Sainsbury’s Little Ones site.

Sarah has hosted at Grand Designs Live and the Ideal Home Show.

In 2005, Sarah created the online website, www.mysinglefriend.com it has been a phenomenal success and changed the attitude to online dating in this country. This has made her the national spokeswoman for dating in the noughties.

On the back of the success of MSF, Sarah has launched the property website www.tepilo.com which aims to bring a change to the way we buy and sell houses.

Sarah’s series, Channel 4′ s, Help! My House is Falling Down! in now in it’s second series for Channel 4, and a new series of Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare has been recommissioned for 2011; due to air in Autumn

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Sunday morning BBC cooking/chat/TV Something for the Weekend not only had James Blunt being funny(yes) with his mention of certain things that happen at public school, I wonder if Blunty has a Pub Shed?

It also had Shed of the year Judge Sarah Beeny, talk about her new show and major project & speaking about Shed of the year 2011 and they showed a picture of Last years Winner Reg and his lady Sarah shed, also yours truly got a mention as well – which was nice – but Iam sure it made me sound a bit like a online nutter obsessed with sheds (oh wait)

So Share your Shed NOW and it could be Shed of the year 2011

Some news about a big cash prize from a big name sponsor and things all sheddies need – coming soon!

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I would love to thank Sarah Beeny for supporting Shed of the year and Shed week since it started.

Sarah has agreed to be a judge again for next years competition , which is great as it’s the 5th year we have run Shed of the year and Shed Week, and It’s Ten years since the my shed door opened and I started readersheds.co.uk so a celebration may be in order around July 4th 2011.

So I hope you welcome Beeny to the competition as she joins Radio 2′s Simon Mayo and Iam sure a few more sheddie judges over the next year.

Sarah set up her own property development and investment companies at the age of 24
along with her brother and partner (now husband). With her business a success, Sarah was
approached to be the presenter of Channel 4’s prime time show ‘Property Ladder’.
Enjoying the opportunity to bring property to the nation, Sarah has fronted many other shows
such as ‘Pay Off Your Mortgage’, ‘Streets Ahead’ and ‘Britain’s Best Home’, as well as being
a regular contributor to magazines such as Homebuyer, New Woman and At Home. Sarah
is a regular writer for The Sunday Times and has written several best selling books, as well
as writing a blog for Sainsbury’s Little Ones site.
Sarah has hosted at Grand Designs Live and the Ideal Home Show.
In 2005 Sarah created the online website, www.mysinglefriend.com it has been a
phenomenal success and changed the attitude to online dating in this country. This has
made her the national spokeswoman for dating in the noughties.
On the back of the success of MSF, Sarah has launched the property website
www.tepilo.com which aims to bring a change to the way we buy and sell houses.
Sarah will be appearing in her brand new Channel 4 series, Help My House is Falling Down!
in August 2010.

So potential sheddies get working on your shed and Share it over at www.readersheds.co.uk

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As you know, Bletchley Park is the charity for Shed Week 2010.

During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom’s main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School. Ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted there, most importantly ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.

Read more about the History of Bletchley Park and what it did for the War effort and the future of computing/the interwebs and sheds.

Hut 6 which won our Hut of the year 2009, is in a right state as you can see from this recent photo from #Bpark campaigner Sue Black

So to support them in my own little sheddie way, I have decided to run a charity auction on ebay with the blessing of Bletchley Park (100% goes to them) in the run-up to Shed Week 2010 (which starts 5 July)

The items already kindly pledged for the auction are:

A signed Moon DVD from the genius Bafta award-winning Director Duncan Jones .

A signed copy of Men and Sheds from shed guru and founding father of modern shedism Gordon Thorburn

In addition to these great items, we welcome your items for auction, any unique items relating to sheds, geeks and Bletchley Park or anything that you feel would benefit the cause and make some money for the preservation of the Huts.

If you have anything you would like to auction off then let me know.

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Further to our “first in there” post about triming up your shed this Christmas.

Shed Judge Sarah Beeny has launched a competition to find the most insanely decorated house and after comfirmation sheds are allowed to enter.

Everyone knows that adding a bit of glamour and originality to your house makes it more desirable to potential buyers or tenants, but how far have you gone to make your house unique this Christmas? We’re on the hunt for people who have gone that extra mile with their festive lights display. We want you to upload a photo of your home’s Christmas light display to our gallery, Sarah will then choose the house that she thinks shows the most Christmas spirit

You can view their gallery here and enter here, If you add your shed remember to mention you found it via shedblog

Of course if you get your shed featured on the tepilo.com site let me know and I will go a Shed gallery on here as well.

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