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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I am very happy to announce that sheddies’ favourite Sarah Beeny has signed up to be a judge again for next year’s Shed of the Year competition (FYI Shed Week starts Monday 5th July 2010)

We all welcome the Beeny again. It’s her 4th year as a judge. She has supported us from the beginning and gives her enthusiasm to the sheddies when it comes to picking the winning sheds.

She said this of 2009 Shed of the Year: ‘The shed quality gets better and better each year – it seems more and more people are embracing the joy of sheds!’

A little about Sarah, if you did not know already:

“Sarah Beeny is a Channel 4 television presenter on the popular Property Snakes and Ladders prime time show. As well as being a well established property mogul Sarah also owns mysinglefriend.com, a social dating website and has recently launched Tepilo.com, a property website to enable you to sell your own property online for free.”

We would also like to give our best to Sarah who is pregnant with her fourth child as we write, congrats Beeny.

You can follow Sarah on Twitter and Facebook

If you would like to Share your shed and have it judge by the Beeny amongst others then you can add it on readersheds.co.uk

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We are very please to announce that sheddies favourite Sarah Beeny has agreed to be a judge for next summers Shed of the year competition, which of course is held during Shed Week (Starting 6th July 2009 for nearly a whole week)

Sarah is famous here in the UK for her skills as a property developer on shows such as Property Ladder and is the author of many best selling property related books.

But to us Sarah is a shed fan this will be the third year that The Beeny has been a judge and we are very happy to have her back.

In terms of judges, Shed Week 2009 is starting to take speed what with Chris Evans becoming a judge the other week.

Iam in discussion with a couple of international judges and Iam sure Shedworking hero, Alex will gives us his take as a judge as well!

If you are a company or organisation interested in sponsoring Shed Week 2009, get in touch with me and I will send you details once I have finalised this that and the other

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The Mirror reports that sheddie favourite and shed of the year judge Sarah Beeny had a close call while on hols recently.

TV presenter Sarah Beeny had to be rescued from the sea after being caught in a deadly rip-tide.

The embarrassed host of Property Ladder was swept out to sea wearing “a very small G-string” during a break in Tunisia.

Sarah said she had been sunbathing topless when she decided to move to a better spot along the beach and started to walk there along the water’s edge.

But she got caught in the strong current and was carried out to sea.

“I got pulled in by the rip-tide wearing a very small G-string and nothing else,” she said. “I panicked and screamed loudly.”

The 36-year-old host of the Channel 4 property show was eventually rescued “by a gorgeous man built like an Olympic athlete.”

“By this time a huge crowd had gathered along the beach to watch the spectacle of a man carrying an almost naked woman out of the sea,” she said. “I was massively embarrassed.”

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