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I suggest this sort of thing
If you can help get over to shedworking.co.uk to find out more.
It’s the end of an era. As some of you know already, the Shedworking staff and family is moving house today and tomorrow (Wednesday) and unfortunately the Shedworking HQ will be staying behind to enrich the lives of a new family (coincidentally very close friends so we’ll be able to make guest returns). We’ve been in here five years now and have obviously become very attached to the place.
Sadly our new home does not have a garden office (yet - garden office suppliers take note…) so we will be cellarworking for a few months until the dust settles and a new Shedworking HQ can rise in pomp and ceremony
We wish Alex & wife and his minishedworkers a painless move… and welcome them back to the shed fold very soon!
After a long search for the right publisher, I’m delighted to announce that ‘Shedworking: the alternative workplace revolution’ will be published during National Shed Week in July 2010 by Frances Lincoln.
Well done Alex, I know how hard you have worked on this, and we here are happy to be involved.
I assume it means the shed rotates on it’s based to get the best sunlight or for hiding from the wife? or Iam I barking up the wrong wossname..
>>>> Shed of the year update - I am still waiting on the final count from the judges - so if you can hold out for a little bit longer. cheers
They also give a good mention to my good self (the internet’s most famous sheddie!!!) and of course Shed of the Year 2008.
so come on you have until Friday 4th to vote for this years top sheds.
‘Another exciting year for sheddies - this competition is a beautiful example of how the British are not just skilled craftsmen but have great imaginations not to mention excellent senses of humour’
Sarah Beeny
The beauty of a garden office is that it combines the popular yearning for a pastoral ideal with the practicalities of technological development and guards our privacy in the way that an open-plan office – even if you call it something exciting like a ‘den’ or a ‘hive’ – never can. .
Alex from shedworking.co.uk
It’s fantastic that beach huts are getting in on the competition this year. Unlike sheddies, beach hut owners often have to work within restrictions about size and colour yet they still manage to create some wonderfully individual seaside hideaways.’ Dr Kathryn Ferry
‘My shed is much more than a place to store the garden tools.’ - Tony : Shed of the year 2007 winner
Share your shed for “Shed of the Year 2008″ and win £500 worth of prizes.
The race is on to win the coveted Shed of the Year title which will be held this summer as part of the second National Shed Week.
We are very pleased to announce that one of the UK’s leading online garden building companies, Garden Buildings Directwill be the official sponsor and shed partner for this year’s Shed Week and will be providing the grand prize for the Shed of the Year Competition.
The grand prize will total £500 and the winner will be able to choose products from Garden Buildings Direct or products from one of their sister websites selling extensive ranges of garden furniture, outdoor toys, fitness equipment and BBQ’s.
Organised by the internationally famous readersheds.co.uk, National Shed Week (which runs from July 7 until July 13 2008) will celebrate one of the cornerstones of British culture, the not so humble Garden Shed.
Can this year’s sheddies beat the wonderful and unique sheds that we showcased in the inaugural Shed Week last year, including the amazing Shed of the Year 2007 which was a Roman Temple built by Tony Rogers?
This year’s judges are property guru Sarah Beeny, wind-up radio inventor Trevor Baylis, Professor of beach huts Kathryn Ferry and Shedworking expert Alex Johnson, Eco-architect Lloyd Alter and to give his sheddies eye view last years winner Tony Rogers.
Sheddies are still welcome to “Share their Sheds” and can enter their buildings on the website ready for the judging in Late June.
About the sponsor
Garden Buildings Direct is part of a number of websites owned by Kybotech Ltd started in 2000, however the business family tree goes back to 1878. Charles & William Walton are the 5th generation of the Walton family connected with the manufacturing of garden buildings and garden related products, based in Sutton-on-Trent the centre for garden buildings since 1927.
They are an online retailer who successfully operate a family of home, garden and leisure retail brands:
Their main product lines go under the brand name of BillyOh.com with ranges of Wooden Sheds, Plastic Garden Sheds, Metal Garden Sheds, Summerhouses, Metal Greenhouses, Wooden Garden Storage, Plastic Garden Storage, Gazebos, Home Offices, Shed Security, Shed Electrics and Arbours as well as garden furniture and BBQ’s.
About National Shed Week
This is the second year we have run the competition which pits wooden sheds against TARDIS, garden offices against beach huts in a battle royal to win the title of Shed of the Year 2008.
After the success of last year’s Shed Week and the great reaction we got from press and the public, Sarah Beeny has agreed to become a judge again, along with inventor and entrepreneur Trevor Baylis.
They are joined by Shedworking expert Alex Johnson, Kathryn Ferry who is a beach hut expert and Treehugger and Eco-housing guru Lloyd Alter.
Contact us
To get access to hires images and more information on Shed week go to our press section
Well you can follow Shedworking icon and Shed of the year judge Alex, who will be not only working from his shed, but posting and twittering all day.
To celebrate, Shedworking will be repeating last year’s highly popular experiment, giving readers regular updates throughout the day of exactly what’s going on at Shedworking HQ.
now if I could just get my boss to allow me to work from the shed, that would be great maybe after the potential success of this year Shed of the year, I could be doing it in 2009
Consider the state of my special keyboard at work, I think working from the shed would do me the world of good.
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