Tim the winner of Shed of the Year sent me a lovely email to say thanks but not only to me, it’s like an oscar speech! but much appreciated.

some thank yous;

Uncle Wilco for masterminding the whole wossaname and being forever on call if needed, and despite having to drag himself from his sick bed saw Shed week through to a successful conclusion despite the difficulties caused by my unintentional “vanishing act”

My fellow contestants especially those who reached the final and those in the pub class who didn’t. Your good wishes were much appreciated.

There were quite a few who I thought could beat me and I could not have grumbled had I lost to many of you. I hope I can prove to be a worthy winner and uphold the honour of the pub class and sheds in general until I am relieved of the title next year.

I have no intention to try again but I hope the rugby pub will inspire even more and better entrants next year.

Deborah Dee the magazine journalist who saw the rugby pub on the website, liked it , commented that it had a “wow factor” and then wrote an article for the co-op magazine (printed circa 1.4 million, circulated to membership circa 500,000). The article came out while the votes were being taken and no doubt made a considerable difference to the voting, although I was canvassing hard as well. What about Deborah for the judging panel next year?

The many friends and supporters who have voted tirelessly whenever possible.

The other people I emailed who have no interest in sheds or the competition but who receive canvassing emails from me just the same My relatives who have never stopped encouraging me

The worthy sponsors Gardenbuildingsdirect, who I am looking forward to hearing from next week!

Tony from last years Roman Temple and the other very worthy judges who said such nice things about my shed

And finally ( I hope I have not left any one out) My wife who has to put up with all my eccentricities but who definitely is allowed in the shed

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Tim and his wife Kathleen are interviewed in their local paper the Suffolk Free Press

WHEN Tim and Kathleen McNeill have friends round for drinks they know the ideal place to entertain them…. the garden shed.

But this is no ordinary shed. Guests won’t be tripping over the mower or sitting on a sack of spuds, but relaxing on elegant sofas and sipping ice cool beers in the 2008 Shed of the Year.

Retired solicitor Tim designed and built the octagonal wood-clad shed around three years ago and kitted it out as a pub.

It has a fully-fitted bar, cane furniture, fridges, a ceiling fan, windows in the roof, a hammock, seagrass matting on the floor and double doors which open out onto the garden.

The former Sudbury rugby player entered the competition on the readerssheds.co.uk website after he was told about it by a friend.

You can view Tim’s shed here

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This is for Shed Week 2008, you can find out who won Shed of the year 2009 here

Sorry for the delay.

To be honest I can’t decide…

My favorite is Tiki-hut

Alex’s favorite is the Eco Shed

so to prolong shed week! and just for some fun, as there is no international prize, tell us which your favorite International shed is in the comments if you are not shedded out.. You can view all the international sheddies (ie where the sheddie has said it’s not in the UK, when they shared them)

and I promise next year the International sheddies who put in as much effort as our UK sheds, will have a proper competition with judges and prizes.

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Well its not really over properly, I still need to announce International Shed of the Year on Tuesday, the prize fell through thats why the delay, been trying to source something for winner, so its just a title sorry:( but shed willing next year we will have a separate thing so that the intersheddies will have something nice to!

I am going away for few beers and a Bath and to get changed out of my I love sheds Tshirt.

I would like to give much thanks to the following who made Shed Week 2008 the best one yet Timand all the other sheddies, the judges Alex, Trevor, Sarah, Lloyd, Kathryn and Chris Evans for agreeing to be a judge next year of course the sponsors Garden Building Direct, the guys who provided some sheddie prizes, the Cheese Shed and Makemineabuilders, and If you feel that Readersheds and Shed Week has given you a bit of shedlove this Year, then help us to make it work better next year.

You can start adding your shed for next year NOW, but they wont be live on the site until I have done some housekeeping next week.

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Jame’s wonderful Potting Shed HDR has won our Shed week photo comp.

Taken in a place with no name
A high dynamic range picture of a local Ravenglass potting shed – why photograph a potting shed, why not, it was there and seemed like a good idea at the time.
With the increase in world food prices I suspect we will see more people turning to growing their own vegetables.

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