Alex proud gives his views over at the Timesonline and says how he got a shed for the sheddie in his life.

One day, the man gives up and retreats into his shed, which is his last refuge, a kind of man preserve. Even then, his wife won’t leave it alone, and will constantly make suggestions for its “improvement” (my wife tells me there’s a trend for wallpapering one’s shed — what?). It’s like a Brazilian soya-bean farmer eyeing up the last scrap of rainforest.

I’ve managed to turn the tables, though. Having lived in several flats that soon came to resemble inhabited car-boot sales, when my wife and I built our own house I was determined to control the clutter from the outset. So, I bought my wife a shed. Not just any shed, but the double-glazed, heated, supersized Rolls-Royce of sheds. Making it expensive was key — the cost meant I was not denigrating her knick-knacks. By going posh, I’m not merely offering a storage solution, but a place where my beautiful wife can express her creativity. It’s not a perfect solution: soft cushions still litter my B&B Italia sofa like so much flyblown trash, and ornaments still sprout like mushrooms on unwatched surfaces. So I have to be vigilant, but, by and large, my nice modernist house does not resemble a live-in eBay. As for the shed, I’ve been in there only once. It took me a week in a sauna retreat to recover, and the sight of multicoloured macramé still makes me sweat.

but as we all know sheddies, both his and her sheds are great and provide the retreat for him or her.

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The Mirror reports in a NIB

A couple has put an end to fights about garden tools by building Two sheds.

Helen and Richard Appleton have even hung “his”and “hers” signs in their sheds in Sudbury, Suffolk, where the winner of Shed of the Year 2008 Tim is from.

Richard says “It’s provides me with solace” and Helen said “He has to ask to go into my shed, Of Course, I can enter his shed whenever I want”

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I have been asked a few times where the name for readersheds.co.uk came from.

of course everyone thinks and are correct that I am playing on the fact that people send in photos of their sheds, a bit like readers wifes in certain mens entertainment magazines, to be honest I think readersheds has now taken on it’s own personality and is not smutty at all, so I think that comparison can now go.

anyway now I have cleared that up here’s some readers ladies and their sheds Some fellas tomorrow.

Pauline from the Fat Newt

Verity from Green gables.

Sam from the Shed

Unknown from the Stoned Inn

Sarah from The Pool shed

Mel from the Mim shed

If you see any others let me know

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With all the talk of Social wossname and user interaction and the like, I thought I would find other ways of you sheddies getting involved with readersheds/shedblog and of course Shed week, currently you can just Contact me using the standard form and I will try and answer your email, or post on the Forum or even follow me on twitter, no that’s posh.

But I saw this post on a great blog called makeuseof, It promotes a new tool that allows you to create a suggestion box on your blog, that allows quick feedback from your users.

Skribit

is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.

anyway the widget is in the righthand side of the blog, and below, so give it a go, click on the Question and post something.

so be gentle and tell me what you want! maybe you want to promote your shed or your event during shed week or even just say hi or ask a shed related question.

Once people have voted for the Questions I will promote the most popular as a post on the blog and try and and answer it for the sheddie.

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I missed this the other day, but Age concern are following the lead on the succesful Austrailian Menshed schemes, according to the BBC.

Age Concern Gloucestershire is about to begin its newest project in the Forest of Dean aimed at men aged over 55.

The “Men in Sheds” scheme will see men giving their time and skills to refurbish donated hand tools.

The Southampton-based charity Tools for Self Reliance will then send the refurbished tools out to Africa.

The project also needs men with administrative and marketing skills. The first “shed” will open later this May in The Mews, Mitcheldean.

“This is a unique opportunity for older men to use their skills and enjoy a social activity and help others,” said Linda Shepherd of Age Concern Gloucestershire.

Old hand sewing machines will also be reconditioned if available.

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