What do you do in your shed? Nuclear power generation...

Shedman has always been fascinated by that image from the black and white footage of atom bomb tests where a shed is blown away in the blast, so he felt a certain irony when he read the following:

From The Observer Sunday November 9th
'Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.

The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground'

Find out more here: The future of things

And here: Hyperion Power Generation

And while you're at it take a look at this too: The future of things - random sheds

Normal service resumes for September

After an excellent holiday in California, Shedman is back in the UK and will be providing regular updates to Shedworld week by week.

Latest news is that Shedman was interviewed by Mark Lawson for the UK BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row. They'll be running a special feature on creative sheds sometime week commencing 1st September. Shedman will update the site with the exact transmission date when he knows himself!

You can also help Shedman raise funds for Cancer Research UK....See opposite!

What daughters do for dads...

Andrew Hollins - or rather his daughter Bethany (My dad has the best shed ever so I hope he sends you a picture!) - contacted Shedman about his collection of original paintings by Australian artist Pete Browne. Shedman asked Andrew if he had a shed and here's his response:

'daughters!
they do set you up!
i do have a shed, but alas no pictures
and just like my life it is narrow, chaotic, cluttered but every now and again things of worth, beauty and even genius emerge!
used for running repairs to the house, garden and equipment
the most recent article to be finished was a house number for my mum - attached
as for the genius bit - still in development!



the originals of the pictures i sent by peter browne
double in price every 3 years! add to your shed collection and your income in one easy move!'

(Love that 17, says Shedman...)

By the way, Bethany works for the Royal Horticultural Society who happen to have a Flower Show this weekend at Tatton Park near Knutsford, Cheshire .

Note about Pete Browne:
'Peter Browne was born in 1947 in West Wyalong NSW.
Peter Browne claims to have been found under a sheet of tin in West Wyalong around 1947. Raconteur and scallywag, Peter moved into a ruin at Silverton and established it’s first art gallery, where he held court for travellers entertaining them in his almost roofless “renovated “ ruin for many years.' More about Pete at Outback Artist.

Shedlife - the adventures of Shedman

The Big Day Out Parker's Piece Cambridge July 2007

Shedlife, Shedman's personal blog, is now live at www.shedlife.net. It features the random jottings of Shedman on the road, travelling far and wide through shedland. Occasional notes about plans, people, projects - and sheds.

Shedlife provides a refreshing personal view of sheds, poetry, and life in general based around Shedman's present and previous projects. As time allows, Shedman will be updating the Shedlife site with projects old and new. If you've met Shedman at projects in the past he'd love to hear from you. - and do send in any reminiscences or pictures if you have them.

Cuisle Poetry Festival

Limerick City Ireland October 2005

Jamie's Turkish Sheds

Talking about holiday snaps from Shedworld - here's a couple that Jim Newell kindly sent Shedman a whole lot of holidays ago. Thanks Jamie!


A Turkish shed

Almost a Turkish shed

Gordon Brown's Second Home?

'Hello Shedman, we enjoyed meeting you recently at Ledbury. I was passing Westminster Palace recently and noticed a floating shed...

All the best

Paul Kennedy
Herefordshire'

Creepie-Crawlie Shed Quest

Wherever Shedman runs a project he likes to go on a Shed Quest to find the best sheds in the zone. Mark Cockram is a bookbinder/book artist who's on a shed quest of his own. He's been invited to exhibit in the South Bank Centre in 2009. The exhibition is called the Pestival and is about the world as perceived through the eyes of insects. He wants to create a Garden Shed Gallery.

Mark needs to find an old dilapidated shed that has lots of evidence of insects living in it. Can anyone out there help at all? If you can, send a message via Kontactr with a picture if possible - and while you're at it, tell Shedman what you do in your shed!


Mark's teaching in India and takes his tea breaks in a shed.

'The shed gallery will be one part of a much larger exhibition,' Mark writes. 'For the shed to have impact it would have to be of a reasonable size. I think that the older the better. The contents would be important as I would not want it to look like a disney film set.'

Sheds of Shedbury 4

Sheds of Shedbury 3

Sheds of Shedbury 2: Coombe Green Mission Room

Sheds of Shedbury 1: Holly Bush Church Room near Eastnor

The Garland Hut and The Dymock Poets - near Ledbury