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Shed Love - what do you do in yours?
Compared to many of the Massive I often feel that others are more informed than me. Sheds on the other hand I know. I am the proud owner of three (well ok one is a bike store). One holds patio furniture and guinea pig paraphenalia, the other is a simple 6ft x 4ft that holds the girls toys and is painted like a beach hut. Number 3 is the big one for it is mine. I live in an all female world - wife & two daughters, all female colleagues) so my shed is my retreat from the world where there is no trace of pink (apart from the left over paint from the guinea pig hutch - thats how girly my life is). It is anally organised with little things in take away containers (where have the love handles come from?) and I have been complimented by my elderly neighbour who felt it showed that I had been "brought up right", the only person who has ever thought that! The shed is where my man stuff is kept. Power tools that I butcher wood with and make things that look "rustic", about 15 million plant pots where I potter about in spring, my land rover metal sign, the Man Utd pennant I got from Old Trafford when I was 11, my shelf of model (ok toy) cars and best of all the first radio cassette player I ever owned from the mid 1980's permanently tuned to 5Live sport. And now I learn my dwelling in the shed may be good for my health, result. Its something to do with the solitude apparently. I would have posted a link but the only ones I could find were on the Sun or the Mail and we ain't going there. So what do you get up to in your shed?
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Don't have one, on the other hand ...
I've got shed envy now!
I'd love my own little private space. When I move (next month, keep your fingers crossed), I'm going to have a little room just to make music in. It will be my shed. Only not a shed. Oh, you know.
I only go in mine to tidy it up
but when I'm in there i do get a strange kind of peaceful (easy) feeling.
They had a feature all about sheds on Jeremy Vine today. It'll be on the iPlayer if you fancy it.
I don't have a shed. I don't even have a garden.
But if I did have a garden, I'd have a shed. And it would be a great shed. It would have shelves, with lots of dusty books, a workbench, lots of tools, a good vice, of course a radio, tuned to Radio 4 on Long Wave and a little stove. I'd also want a rather dusty and battered chair to go in the corner.
What would I do in my shed?
Masturbate. Furiously.
"Masturbate"
Is that a euphemism for DIY ?
Interesting...
... I can never manage it when I'm angry.
Usual stuff
Garden tools, sack of bird seed & future antiques (tat) + a vast array of empty cardboard boxes. You never know when you need to send parcels abroad. Yes i do, at Christmas. To USA & Japan. I knew they would come in sometime....
I live in a flat
we have no shed but I am the proud owner of a Music Room, about the size of a large shed.
In it, is the CD, Book and Vinyl Collection. Bass, Guitar, Keyboards and drum machines, and midi controller things with knobs and buttons on. Crates full of wires, and cables, The computer, speakers, a comfy chair and well..what more do you need. Music is made, podcasts are edited, DJ sets are practised, hours of music are listened to and nonsense is written on this website. Oooh heaven is a place on earth.
BBC1 news this am -
Asking viewers if they have a garden shed.
Just garden stuff.
I used to have the loft for being A Man in - like you, dc, I'm surrounded by GURLS - but even that's impassable now, thanks to crates and crates of little girls' clothes that Mrs B won't give away. I have cordially but firmly informed her that in the New Year, 75% of our possessions are going to Oxfam. I WANT MY LOFT BACK.
A suggestion for you Bob
Mrs C is curretly engaged as a full time mum but in between child rearing she is embracing her inner Del Boy by slowly selling off the girls old stuff. She mainly takes it to Nct sales (essentially a jumble sale crossed with a Next sale) all she has to do is put prices on it and deliver it at the allotted time and they sell it for you, taking 30% for themselves. Anything she doesn't sell gets taken back to the next one. The loft is steadily emptying and we have a few extra quid. Which is nice!
Does a garage count?
It's at the end of the garden if that helps. I go there to potter, tinker or simply mooch. I'm rubbish at DIY, so my array of tools consists almost entirely of hammers of various sizes. Also down there are the relics of hobbies I don't do any more, like my cricket bat and pads, the flight case for my guitar and my vintage porno stash.
I know what you mean.
Who's got the time to play cricket any more? And if you're not gigging, there's no need for a hard-case. And scruff mags? Since Broadband came along, well..
Objects of desire!
Check this out -
http://www.shedworking.co.uk/
lots of links to fabulous sheds and shedlike structures!
It's shed porn!
:)