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Take Part in Shed of the Year 2009
"Do you have a garden shed that is unique?" asks Uncle Wilco head sheddie of readersheds.co.uk. "Maybe it's your own little bolthole away from the trials of life. Maybe you have converted your humble...
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Shedworking children in St Albans
Breakfast and after-school facilities are to be offered in a cabin-style building.Well, who could be promoting shedworking for children in St Albans of all places? We all know who's to blame for that...
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Shedman's specially commissioned poem in The Guardian
There's a specially commissioned new poem by Shedman in the Work section of The Guardian today (Saturday April 25th) in honour of all you Shedworkers.A DoddleAlan’s in his shed, working away,away from...
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RHSheds - Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Shedman visited Chelsea Flower Show on Friday 22nd May - a lovely sunny day in the capital. Sheds and shed-like structures were well in evidence and Shedman shares a few of them with you here.Links...
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He Mail: Send him a message
He’s in the shedIt’s just you and him.What would you really like to say to him, one to one?Following last years' very successful Best Mates workshop at Brighton Jubilee Library for Fathers' Day...
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New Mexico Toilet
Samuel Hicks is a young photographer whose work has already appeared in Intersection, Wallpaper and The Sunday Times Magazine and has been selected for several awards notably The London Photographic...
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Shedworld recommends...
Some shed books to inspire , intrigue and inform. Thanks to Alistair for recommending Heidegger's Hut.Shedworld www.shedworld.net
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Ledbury, Poetry and Sheds
And as a prelude to Ledbury Poetry Festival, Shedman is closely reading The Dymock Poets, a fascinating study of the group of Georgian Poets who gathered in Dymock near Ledbury just before the First...
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What shall we do without timber?
The Beech Cathedral at Blaise Castle Estate Bristol. Photo ©ShedmanSomething Understood: Dark SanctuaryGreat programme by Fergal Keane on BBC Radio 4, exploring the physical and fairytale world created...
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Shedbury 2009
A truly star-studded and brilliant Ledbury Poetry Festival coinciding with National Shed Week.In the midst of some of Britain's best countryside and cider, Ledbury hosted a festival representing every...
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A History of the World in 100 Sheds
I'm fascinated by the short 15 minutes audio profiles of one hundred objects through which the British Museum's Neil MacGregor is telling the history of the world on BBC Radio 4 UK. It got me...
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A History of the World in 100 Sheds No 1: The Telemark Trapper's Hut
How a hut helped stop the Nazi A-bomb programme.Norwegian Colonel Jens-Anton Poulsson who died on February 2 aged 91, led the local team who made two attempts at blowing up the heavy water plant in the...
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A History of the World in 100 Sheds No 2: Porthcurno Cable Hut
Porthcurno is the location of one of the most beautiful bays in Cornwall and home to the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum.Although Porthcurno may not be the oldest subterranean cable landing point in the...
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A History of the World in 100 Sheds: No 3 Edison's Black Maria
In 1893 a small shed was built to film the first Edison movies. It was designed by W. K. L. Dickson, the unsung genius behind many of Edison's inventions and patents. The shed was painted black inside...
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On the Shedge, Mount Etna, Sicily
Shedman is just back from a wonderful holiday in Sicily. Italy may not be that well noted for its sheds but on Mount Etna they certainly come into their own. The landscape is pretty fast changing and...
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The Navajo for shed
You may have thought 'hogan' was a not very nice word for someone from the Netherlands or else the name of a gigantic wrestler. However, a hogan is also 'a North American Indian (esp. Navajo) building...
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Beach huts on the South Bank
Shedman feels as though every time he goes to the South Bank someone has put up a shed - and not just for builders. Until September 4 you can enjoy a promenade of pleasure past a variety of...
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Previously on the South Bank...
Yesterday's post sent me hunting for other South Bank sheds. In 2007, another group of artistic sheds appeared, overseen by Antony Gormley's figures during 'Blind Light', his first major London...
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Indigenous peoples have a word for it...
Shedman will be returning to the States later this month to Dana Point, near San Diego in southern California. He hopes to visit Mission San Capistrano.According to the Kumeyaay Information Village...
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RadioShed? Shedman at Daventry Arts Festival 17-21 July
Daventry is a place of roads and crossings: the A5 and A45, Watford Gap and the M45/M1 junction. For Shedman growing up in the Midlands it was somewhere below Coventry, geographically and...
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