I has an email from Tony the winner of the first Shed of the Year, saying he’s got a new shed! I thought blimey what’s he done this time!

The new shed is another Roman Temple but this one is one-thirtieth full size and it’s built of Lego. There’s even a one-thirtieth version of me standing in front of it.

My son is an architect who found the Roman columns for the front of my full size Roman Temple. They all clubbed together and bought them for me for Christmas. This time he’s designed a model from the Lego Digital Designer web site. You have to specify all the parts and brick colours and you can then buy it as a kit complete with full parts list and illustrated instruction sheets. http://ldd.lego.com/

The new shed has all the details of the original, Roman columns, plaque above the door, green door with black hinges and even a flaming torch in the front. It’s probably not the smallest shed in the world as I suspect someone has a smaller one on their model railway layout.

PS. In company with many of our MPs, my wife says I’ve “flipped” and should designate the shed as my “second home”.

Best Wishes

Tony Rogers

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Just a reminder one of the great prizes for the overall winner of Shed of the year is courtesy of our friends at the Cheese Shed.

They are giving away a Subscription (four boxes over the course of the year) as a prize for Shed Of The Year worth £130 !

Now, if I was just your average cheese-lover-in-the-street (rather than Bovey Tracey’s Leading Shed-based Virtual Cheesemonger), I’d probably love to get a box of cheese turning up at my door. On the assumption that some of you might feel the same, we now proudly present:

the Cheese Shed Subscription.

Simply, this is a way of ordering a regular delivery of cheese from us. In the first week of each month, we’ll be sending out boxes containing about 200g of five contrasting cheeses (as in the Cheese Shed Selection). You’ll get about one kilo in all, and we’ll vary the selection from month to month, so hopefully the contents will always be a delightful surprise!

Also those canny lot have come up with the great Wall of cheese, which shows the wonderful cheeses they supply just think four walls of cheese make a shed.

If you are a company wanting to sponsor either Shed Week and/or “Shed of the year” then please contact me

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We have a few Straw related sheds on the site but these two caught my eye.

Strawdio

The Strawdio was built out of Strawbales and is a hybrid “loadbearing” and timber supported structure. The roof is Wild Flower Meadow sitting on a pond liner. I made it myself with the help of an army of volunteers over 2 years after going on some courses with Barbara of amazon Nails.

the straw bale shed

The owner James does not give much info on the build, only this sheddiebabble!!

May be extended underground at some point to start subterranean ‘base’…actually I would be interested to hear if anyone has used their shed as a starting point to dig underground. If the shed is conceived as a ‘retreat’, then it seems to me that psychologically the next step is to withdraw secretively into the earth itself. No?

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This is definately an odd shape and i made it to fit the shape of the garden, it has a monopitch rubber roof and i splashed out with some insulation in the walls.

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Our Shed Judge Chris not only hosted the event he won two awards, lucky he has not added his Shed to Shed of the year as the same may happen!!

sonys chrisevans-Yui Mok/PA Wire

Chris Evans has scooped two gongs at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

The BBC Radio 2 DJ won Music Radio Personality of the Year and the Entertainment Award.

Evans, who also hosted the ceremony, beat Lauren Laverne, Scott Mills, Simon James and Hill and Zane Lowe for the Music Radio Personality of the Year award.

The DJ also came out on top in the Entertainment Award section over Adam and Joe for 6 Music and three Absolute Radio DJs’ shows - Christian O’Connell, Geoff Lloyd, and Tim Shaw’s Absolution.

Source Google PA news

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Trying to do a daily just sheds in the run up to Shed Week including the random sheds.

This is a lovely looking shed from Pat in Leeds, it sums up what a good shed is all about

its a place where I can be free to be myself and relax.

I have planted lots of plants and flowers to attract butterflies around the shed. Visitors to my shed leave notes, design a butterfly or draw pictures in the butterfly visitors book and take away butterfly stickers. It was specially built for the purpose of attracting butterflies. There are many reminders of the beautiful butterfly inside and outside the shed. People have said they feel peaceful and creative when they are in the shed. For me, its a great place to relax. Sometime, I spend most of the day there!

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The Press Association state the blinking obvious with their B&Q survey, we know most of this already as you sheddies have been doing it for years.. and of course last years winner was a Shed with a bar I wonder if this years will have a hot tub?

Two in five women are hankering after a garden shed – but not just for storing tools, a poll suggested today.
In a survey by DIY chain B & Q, a fifth of those who wanted the wooden building would use it to house a Jacuzzi or a bar.

Others would bring glamour to the garden with under-floor heating (22.5%), and 20% said the shed would have to be carpeted.
Of the 3,000 women surveyed, 16% wanted a bed in the shed. Nearly one in 10 confessed to having had sex in a shed, while 4.9% used theirs for making private phone calls.

Design manager for B & Q
Fionnuala Johnston said: “We’re seeing more and more women come into stores looking for a shed of their own.

“While men are likely to add a chair, a radio and leave it at that, women are more likely to splash out on decoration, accessories and little touches to make their shed a personal retreat.”

The top 10 wishlist for a woman’s shed, starting from the most popular (with percentage of respondents who wanted that item) was: a secure lock (45.1%), a radio (36.07%), a potting bench (32.93%), a Jacuzzi (25.1%), a television (24.9%), ’eco’ features or solar panels (23.13%), under-floor heating (22.5%), bar (21.3%), a carpet (19.8%), and a bed (16.67%).

The women were polled online in February.

remember that you have until Sunday 11:59 Pm to add your shed to shed of the year 2009

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This Sunday is the closing date for shed of the year 2009..

Can you beat 2007 winner Tony and his Roman Temple

or Tim last years winner and his pub shed.

So get your camera out and take a hutful of shots of your shed, WE want photos of

You then need to get the Jpegs of the photos and resize them to around 850 pixels wide as my shedbased system can’t handle images much bigger (for Shed 2010 and the system will be re written from the felt down)

You then need to Share your shed here, and provide as much info about the shed and if you built it yourself the details on the shedbuild and choose a category that the shed comes under.

That’s it! I will then make it live on the site once I have checked it and then the world can start voting for it from Monday.

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Some wonderful shed added recently on readersheds ready for the Shed of the year competition!

the little pastel cottage
lorraine rose

back yard

The Lapland Lodge
Dando family

Blaenafon, South Wales

The Dog & Kids
John Anderson

Darlington, Co Durham

Canadian Pine
Richard Primeau

Quebec / Canada

camp david
ralph lewis

in my woods

The Lady Sarah Out of Worthing
Reg Miller

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

B- Side Festival Shed
Tom Rosenthall

Weymouth Quay

Why not join them and Share your Shed

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You have just a little bit over a month to get your entries in for this years Shed of the Year 2009 competition as May 3 2009 is the closing date.

So with the weather getting better and the nights longer or something in the UK, then it’s time to finish your shed and take some photos and add it to readersheds.

Why not Share your shed like the previous two winners Tim & Tony, you need to add your shed here, and add the following information.

The name of the shed
Shed type - Is it [Normal] [Eco-Sheds] [Garden Office] [Cabin] [Workshop] [Unique] [Summerhouse] [Pub] [Studio] [Tardis] [Hut] [Wooden] [Other]
Your Name and other details.
Location of shed
Features
Info

and you need to add a minimum of two images, inside and outside but the judges will get a better idea if you add around a dozen of the features etc if you have a video on youtube then you can add that as well.

On May 4: Public voting for Shed of the Year begins, so get your family & friends to vote, then on June 21 pubic voting ends and the top shed in each category will be presented to the Celebrity Judges, who will have their go at seeing which shed will be Shed of the year to be announced on the July 8.

So come on sheddies Share your shed

I am still in discussion with various partners what the prizes will be given to the winning shed, but being shed of the year is a great start!

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