It is important to keep our hands doing (if we can) but also our minds. Here is a contribution from Staithes Shedder Malcolm who is not back at the Shed because of family vulnerabilities. He can still participate by forwarding tit-bits! “A bit of light relief from Virus and…
Three new ventures in the making possibly (actually concerned with making too!) Kits4Kids Shedder Bob has been doing a good sideline trade at the Sleights Shed making Teddy Bear chairs from sticks. He’s been selling them alongside his walking sticks in one or two of his outlets. He also makes…
A message from BBC Look North on Thursday about World Mental Health Day led to some hasty arrangements to film about the role of Sheds in positive mental health of men and women and in combating the risk of suicides, particularly in men. We were particularly pleased that…
Graham has family in Victoria, AU. Not in Melbourne which is a relative hot spot. Bin Lady is amusing as a piece of fun but less so for those involved for real. Graham loves the mention of Bunning (they took over rather unsuccessfully UK Homebase). In Australia they are regarded…
Janine Pemberton (of Whitby Eskmouth Scouts and Kidz Making Good) forwarded a blockbuster trailer very appropriate to Sheds. You don’t buy a life, you build it! What blockbusters there will be at our Sheds in the coming week awaits to be seen. Well, here is a blockbuster project that’s…
Six at Staithes today (Monday 21/9/20). Conforming to rules. We also laid plastic sheeting on the area behind the Garden Club shed we cleared last week and ordered a dumpy back of stones to spread on it it. Technically, it is, we believe, called landscaping. At SAMS in Sleights we…
“At my lowest, I did consider suicide” Published 15th September 2020 in Shoulder to Shoulder, the UK Men’s Shed Association newsletter I am going to share with you today the story of my ordeal with mental illness and anxiety. I am going to be frank and totally honest about it…
Progressing, but also on the move to a new web-site www.whitbycompassion.org.uk The article in Whitby Gazette last Thursday put a stake in the ground for the Compassion project. If you missed it, here it is below: Don’t expect to see some great edifice rising because we are at the stage…
September marks the beginning of the return to school and return to Sheds. We’ve been doing work outside and some maintenance inside (with slight variation between the four venues) but today we were back in a growing number at Staithes. We got on with roofing the “wood rack alley” at…
Covid-19 struck in terms of lockdown in March 2020. There were many practical challenges that impacted almost all of us. How to adjust our lives to fit with unprecedented restrictions on freedom of movement and freedom to associate. Schools close, offices closed, home working (if possible) became the new normal.…
