A unique looking shed today.

The Clarkson is my first shed and was conceived on my computer and constructed with materials reclaimed from demolishing the house. It is fully insulated and double glazed. It puts a smile on your face! One end is a comfy upholstered games den and the other is a work bench.

Addtional Info: “Every invention that has ever mattered in the whole of human history has come from a man in a shed in Britain” says Clarkson in the sunday times. As it resembles a classic shape of caravan it was christened in honour of the great man! It was in this shed I made my most successful contraption, a remote controlled rotating bird table. It does no worse than create entertainment plus a little indignity to marauding squirrels and wood pigeon.

If this is Clarkson Mk1 I can’t wait for Mk 2

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I was lucky to have a few days away (with Mrs UW) for the May Bank holiday and the first night started at the lovely Moorlands House B & B in Belstone in Devon as we broke up the journey to Cornwall.

and the owners had a great potting shed..!

I told the owner Johnny about readersheds when he served us a great English breakfast in the cosy dinning room, but I think he was a bit confused by it all, but maybe he can share his shed for next years comp

ove the place was in a location over looking the moors and had a great local pub with good beer

A very nice start to a break, I would highly recommend it (no I am not on a retainer) but dogs are allowed so maybe sprout can stay next time.

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The Cardiff Student Weekly newspaper Gair Rhydd reports

A group of sunbathing first-year students were shocked to discover a homeless lodger living in the garden shed of their student house.

The students were making the most of the hot weather on Tuesday 21 April when they discovered items belonging to a mystery guest after they looked in their garden shed.

One of the students told gair rhydd: “We had decided to go and revise on the roof of the shed when we came across a hole up there. When we looked inside we saw a mattress on the floor, as well as biscuits, bottled water and clothes.”

One thing I am not sure about this story - Students saying “We had decided to go and revise” never in my day did we do that

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Paul Routledge in the Mirror reports

Every man is entitled to his shed, but when you’re as rich as Tony Blair, things can get a bit out of hand.

And they have. The megashed for his £5.75million mansion in the Chilterns set him back £20,000.

This is an awful lot of money just for somewhere to escape from the missus and read mucky magazines. But he can earn that in less than 10 minutes on the international lecture circuit..

Well Tony has got a few more days to Share his shed.

The First Post has more details.

this is not just any old shed. He and his wife Cherie have submitted a planning application to create a £20,000 equipment store.

According to the proposals from the Blairs’ architect, it will measure 21ft by 9ft and be constructed from reclaimed brick, discreetly concealed beneath weather boarding, with an attractive zinc roof. The interior will also include what is referred to as a dying [sic] area, as well as a toilet and sink.

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The guardian said it’s “hideous new garden shed ” I did not see the first show but will watch again..

Hopefully I can find out some more about the shed and how its been setup.

On the other hand they are launching a DigIN campaign to get people to grow their own veg.

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Householders worried about recession-fuelled burglaries will be offered discount vouchers for security equipment by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith this week.

The DIY store money-off scheme is part of a push to prevent the economic crisis sparking further rises in burglaries – which rose 4% in the most recent crime figures.

Alarms, window locks and timer switches are among the items which customers will be able to get at a reduced price from B&Q and Focus DIY.

The 10% off vouchers will be contained in a free advice pack which will also include help with assessing home safety and a ’before you leave the house’ checklist to put by the front door

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Childhood sweethearts Stanley and Christine Buck have created a model of a 1950s town to remind them of “happy times”.

The retired couple, of Whittlesey, Cambs, have spent much of the past 20 years crafting the MDF replica.

The 1:24inch scale model features a variety of places that hold memories for them, including the coffee shop in Greenford, London, where they met in 1957.

Mrs Buck, 68, said she and her husband, a 75-year-old former factory worker, had spent thousands of hours on the project.

“I used to do it all day, as well as the housework,” said the mother-of-two, who has nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

“I’m the artistic one and he makes the buildings.”

She said the model, which is 24ft in length and 2ft deep, was based on 1950s architecture and fashions.

“It’s a collection of buildings we’ve known or that remind us of places that we’ve been to,” she said. “We get pleasure from looking at it. It has memories for us.

“It’s more about the period than any particular place.”

The cinema where they went on a date is included in the town centre model, along with houses, flats and shops.

The couple, who celebrate their golden wedding next year, have welcomed visitors from neighbouring counties to view their work, which is stored in a garden shed.

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Those lot over at Garden Buildings Direct have got a great little beach hut/surf shed for sale

Surf Shack a great authentic looking building ideal to store all of your surf and water sports gear. Modelled on a traditional surf shack it features a large amount of useable space and includes wide, double doors for easy access.

They have a good interactive wossname on the page as well, but you really need to see it in situa, a gerat idea to show you the features of the shed

This is not a sponsoerd post, but if you do buy from them I get some money as an affiliate.

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Alex foxed us with his weekly name that shed thing… and this weeks was Winston Churchill’s shed

and one of his shedworkers Martyn Cox talks about it

I recently snapped this shed at Chartwell in Kent. It is none other than the shed once owned by wartime PM Winston Churchill. I like to imagine that in between meetings with Stalin and Roosevelt, rallying the RAF during the Battle of Britain and helping to plan the D-Day landings, that Churchill could find time to potter in his shed, rearranging the shelves, filling jars with screws and making sure his packets of seeds were in alphabetical order.”

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POLICE are warning shed owners to think security following a number of break-ins at allotments in South Somerset.

Several sheds at allotments in Ilminster were raided by burglars between 7pm on March 19 and 9am on March 20 and various items were stolen including a rotavator and a petrol strimmer.

Now police are not only appealing to anyone who has information about these break-ins to come forward, but have also urged shed owners to think more about their security and to think “shed-u-cation.”

A police spokesman said: “The humble garden shed has increasingly become a happy hunting ground for thieves. With security on many houses upgraded traditional burglars are actually opting for easy pickings at the end of the garden.

This applies to all sheddies really and the police have some more tips here

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