Shed Photo of the Year update

You may have remembered that Andrew Culture won our Shed Week Photo Comp with his great B & W shot of an allotment shed.

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Well I have finally been able to track him down, so over to him!

This is me in my own shed (just after I had built it)

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The inspiration behind my interest in sheds is a fascination of how we carve out tiny pieces of this planet and claim them as our own.

The truth is I don’t actually have much in my shed, everything in there belongs to my wife as she’s the real gardener. I just like to stand in the shed and survey the allotment.

The winning shed photo is of a good friend’s shed down at the allotment, it’s a bit more representative of a proper allotment shed as it’s a bit ‘Heath Robinson’ and our shed was built from a kit.

Our previous allotment shed was made up of four posts knocked into the ground, and four walls of weatherboarding reclaimed from a derelict plot elsewhere on the allotments. It regularly blew down.

We seem to accidentally collect sheds, in addition to the shed at the allotment we have had three at home, we now only have two as one was gifted to a friend who needed somewhere to store his moth watching equipment.

I am a writer and photographer – www.andrewculture.com

My wife is a ‘classically trained’ gardener, she served her apprenticeship caring for the listed gardens at a local stately home, she keeps a blog here

>> Thanks Andrew, of course do you think you lot can be top Shed photo for Next year, then please add the photo to our Flickr Group now.

The most secure shed in Wales, maybe Britain?

The trumpet of truth reports on a unique “shed” in a coppers back garden.

robin-mellor Picture Peter Bolter - Media Wales

WORLD War II history buff Robin Mellor came up with a rather drastic solution when he discovered a wartime pillbox was under threat from a modern housing development – he moved it to his back garden.

Policeman Robin, 32, was on patrol in Llandow, in the Vale of Glamorgan, when he spotted the pillbox on Llandow Airfield and decided that it should be kept for posterity.

The airfield served as a vital aircraft storage base during the war and the pillbox was one of several that helped protect the airfield from enemy attack.

And Robin was concerned that if the Luftwaffe could not destroy the Pickett-Hamilton Fort pillbox, a housing development planned for the airfield in future years was threatening to do so. So Robin, whose grandfather, Jesse, served in the Home Guard in Pontypridd, decided that his garden was the only place for it and got Leckwith-based Dragon Rescue to lift the five-ton pillbox from the airfield and transport it to the garden of his home in Llanharan

Ok its not techincally a shed, but Iam sure one of you clever sheddies can turn it into a great place to potter!

Thanks to Workshopshed for the heads up.

Hermit found dead in tunnel of rubbish

A shocking story, make sure you call on your older neigbours to see how they are in this cold weather just in case

Photo: MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS SYNDICATION

Photo: MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS SYNDICATION

A recluse died inside a labyrinth of tunnels he created in a mountain of litter at his house, it emerged today, reports the telegraph

Gordon Stewart, 74, was discovered at his home which was crammed floor to ceiling with rubbish, police said.

Thames Valley Police were called to the property in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, by concerned neighbours but were forced to bring in a Specialist Search and Recovery team to find the body

After forcing entry, officers discovered a maze of tunnels networking around the interior of the building, with Mr Stewart lying dead inside.

Concerned neighbours raised the alarm because they had not seen the pensioner, who lived alone, for several days.

Locals, who described Mr Stewart as “a bit of a hermit”, said the man was often spotted riding his bike around the streets.

Man burned in shed explosion

The Shropshire star reports and give a warning to all sheddies.

A 20-year-old north Shropshire man was left with facial burns today after the shed he entered to go to sleep burst into flames when he lit a cigarette.

Firefighters said the shed was being used to store butane gas cylinders and a barbecue, which could have caused the explosion when the man used his lighter.

The victim is believed to have been staying in the garden shed at his mother’s house in George Street, Whitchurch, because he was locked out.

He was also left suffering from shock and had burns to hands, firefighters said

Mike Beach, crew manager at Whitchurch Fire Station, said: “The young man was sleeping in a shed where lots of equipment including a barbecue and butane gas cylinder were being stored.

“It’s possible the gas cylinder valve was partially open when he went to light his cigarette causing a flash explosion which set the shed on fire. It burned his face and hands and he said his injuries were stinging very badly.

“When we arrived the victim was trying to put out the fire with his neighbour’s hosepipe.”

Shed News in Brief

Police overkill on shed theft reports bedford today

A police helicopter, a van, two panda cars and five officers – all for thieves trying to steal a motorcycle helmet.

The bizarre incident took place on Wednesday morning when police officers were called to King Street in Potton following a report of a man trying to break into a garden shed.

A cat survived in a shed for months after some window licking saved her life, so say the BBC

A cat owner has been reunited with her pet after it apparently spent a month locked in a shed

If you see any shed news out there on the interweb, then let me know

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