Friday Finery: Ben Fogle's writer's hut

This week's entry is an interior, broadcaster, writer, and keen shed enthusiast Ben Fogle inside his hut as posted on his instagram page.

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Latest edition of The Scottish Shedder magazine out now

The November issue of the Scottish Men's Sheds Association magazine, The Scottish Shedder, is available either as a pdf here or using the online magazine version here. Features include:

* SHED IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Dingwall Men’s Shed

* A PERSONAL STORY: Billy Christie from Barrhead Men’s Shed 

* SHED LIFE: Lanark Men’s Shed’s new beginning

* SHED LIFE: Stonehaven & District Men’s Shed awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service 

* SHED LIFE: Ben Fogle drops in on Orkney Men’s Shed

* SHED LIFE: Aberchirder lad’s 78-hours Shedding for Duke of Edinburgh Award

* SMSA NEWS: New Shed on the Block celebrates double triumph

* SMSA EVENTS: Battle of the Shed Bands

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The 72 Hour Cabin

The 72 Hour Cabin project asked five people with stressful jobs (including broadcaster Ben Fogle) to live in bespoke glass cabins in Sweden and take part in various outdoor activities as well as living off grid. The results are unsurprisingly pretty positive - all five showed a significant decrease in blood pressure and heart rate, and an increase in levels of well-being and creativity (full details here).

Co-leader of the project Walter Osika, Researcher in Stress and Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet, said: "I am positively surprised by the results and it shows that a Swedish ‘close to nature’ lifestyle can improve people’s well-being, at least in a short run. We saw a 70 percent decrease of stress, which is considerable"

You can now also book one of the cabins to try it out for yourself at Visit Sweden.


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Ben Fogle: shedworker

A nice - if perhaps rather blokey - piece by broadcaster and traveller Ben Fogle about his shed in the Daily Telegraph (which also mentions a quarterly magazine called The Shed - I wonder if he's getting confused with the pdf forerunner of Shedworking?). Here's a snippet:

"While many people prioritise practicality, my vision is entirely driven by aesthetics and provenance. I wanted everything in my shack to have been recycled, upcycled or reused. And of course, it had to look the part. The doors came from an old museum, the wooden cladding was from pallets, the lights were salvaged from a ship, the windows came from an old factory. The crowing glory was a tiny wood-burning stove, to provide a glimmer of heat in the upcoming winter. All of this was topped off with a children's turret, with a tiny trap door, ladder and firemens pole."

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The Secrets of Scott's Hut

If you missed this marvellous BBC documentary about Scott's Hut, nip along smartish to the BBC's iPlayer thingie and watch/download it. Here's the bumph:

"Ben Fogle joins an expedition across Antarctica to find Captain Scott's Hut, frozen in time for a century. The hut was built to support Scott's 1911 attempt to be first to the South Pole, and was later abandoned together with ten thousand personal, everyday and scientific items. Ben uncovers the hut and its contents, finding new information about his hero Scott and his famously tragic expedition. Scott's diaries are read by Kenneth Branagh."

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