Category Archives: Sheds

Links for 2 March 2009

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I’ve been working offline a lot this week and trying to concentrate on getting a couple of projects underway, but here are a few things that have come over the parapet:

Caroline Smailes is going to be signing her new novel Black Boxes at Waterstones in Chester on Saturday March 7th between 11am and 1pm. Caroline is a terrific writer and her books are well worth getting hold of even if you can’t make it to Chester.

Lots of us are trying to find ways to make our favourite online reading available in other forms and the Tabbloid service from HP aims to help by converting RSS feeds into a pdf. You can add as many feeds as you like (at least I can’t see a restriction) and a nicely formatted pdf ‘magazine’ is emailed to you at intervals you specify. There’s no sign-up and the service is free, but you do need to give your email address, for obvious reasons.

There are developments over at the Shedworking blog, where you can now buy t-shirts, mugs and whathaveyou with designs by Felix Bennett.

And finally, Liberty Hall Writers is advising that we should kill our wordprocessors. True.

Shedworking the Book

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Good news at the Shedworking blog, where Alex announced this morning that he has found a publisher for his book Shedworking: the alternative workplace revolution. The project was a casualty of HarperCollins’s takeover of The Friday Project last year so it’s great to see this book back on schedule:

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. It’s a natural home for Shedworking … [Read more]

Saving Bletchley Park Huts Campaign

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The Shedworking blog is publicising the campaign to save the rapidly crumbling Bletchley Park huts. These were home to the most strategically important shedworkers in history: they cracked the codes used by the Germans during World War II and helped bring the war to its conclusion.

As we all know, the Bletchley Park huts are in considerable danger. Happily, campaigners are working hard to save these historic shedlike atmospheres. For more details, please go to Save Bletchley Park and the Saving Bletchley Park blog … [Link]

Edit 9 February 2009. Bletchley Park Hut 6 has been entered for the 2009 Shed of the Year competition. The entry on Readersheds is here. And it’s in a sorry state. A good showing during Shed Week, which begins on July 6th, might help save this historic hut.

Shedworking Issue 16

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Last week the Shedworking blog announced the third birthday edition of its free e-magazine, The Shed. It’s always an enjoyable read and this edition has a delightful piece on fictional sheds:

Not all well known garden offices and shedworking atmospheres are actually real. Naturally, sheds feature heavily in many children’s stories – in my case Jennings’ Little Hut by Anthony Buckeridge is probably ultimately the inspiration for this magazine – from the rustic simplicity of the Secret Seven’s meeting hut and Hagrid’s single room live/work timber building in the Harry Potter stories, to the rather splendid back garden laboratory which belongs to Charlie Ashanti’s mother in Zizou Corder’s Lionboy.

The Shed issue 16.