Sheds may be closed, but communications do not have to be. Some are new. We can look across the UK Shed landscape on the Wednesday UK Shed Happens Radio Show (10 – 12). It’s on now as I type and you can listen tomorrow to the Show once it is…
“At the Drop of Another Hat” was the title of a follow on to “At the Drop of a Hat”, a show by Flanders and Swann. Do you remember the Hippopotamus song or the big 6 wheeler, scarlet painted, 97 horse-power omnibus. Fighting to think of another title for the…
Do feel free to say how you are getting on during Shed closedown due to Covid-19 lockdown. “Big Col” Easterby Graham placed a Messenger call to Colin who is sadly for him and us now in a Whitby care home. With a bit of jiggery-pokery (a technical…
Of UK origin but reaching our shores via Len on the Gold Coast. A piece for reflecting on and about the return to normal or a new normal. Len comments to listen and watch all the way through. There are a few story threads in here. If we had not…
News from Len in Gold Coast Labrador Shed. Well, That’s me in Hospital 😩 This has not been a good morning. After spending the last two weeks quarantined inside the house, I decided to go horseback riding, something I haven’t done in many years. It turned out to be a horrible…
Here are Parts 1 and 2 of the “UK Sheds Happen” broadcast via Frome 96.6fm Radio. In total, two hours of listening. This programme is an international one with contributions from Australia, Iceland, Canada, Hawaii, Germany and, yes, Whitby. It is an interesting angle on the universality of Sheds that…
I don’t have the time! We do have now:-) Here are two musical contributions from an old friend, Steve Foster of Robin Hood’s Bay (known as the Singing Vicar) and Phil Smith of Sleights who is a new contact for Graham! Both guys responded to a call for music for…
Song and music by Steve Foster of RHB “Doing the Coast to Coast” People’s Health Trust put out a press release about Staithes Shed on Wednesday this week. With a photo of Brian, Maggie (and daughter Lisa) and Graham using Zoom video conferencing. This was picked up the following…
More snippets starting with a sad one. It is sad to learn that Mary Gullon of Sleights died recently, well into her 90’s. Mary was a fund of stories about life in the past and she had a wicked sense of humour. When the Sleights Shed was being established 4…
Father of the Sheds, Roger Gould, has gone back to his second childhood if not his third, He has provided a challenge for kids of all ages (including Shedders therefore) to use best Blue Peter practice and spare toilet rolls to make a racing car. He was sent this by…
