John 'Shedman' Davies and his shed are having a busy time of it at the moment. For the second year running, John was at Ledbury Poetry Festival outside the Burgage Hall, starting all kinds of conversations with the question 'What's the first shed you ever remember?' Visitors included actress Linda Thorson (The Avengers, Emmerdale), Dame Joan Bakewell (who remembers her Grandfather's fire hazard of a shed at the back of a Manchester terrace) and Roger McGough, who described how his friend with an allotment shed had tried to encourage him in the ways of the soil, but to no avail.
Highlights included the man who came into Shedman's shed and said 'I set fire to my mother', the Engaged Buddhist band The Boddhivistas who sang Shed California to the Eagles tune and Merys, the lovely lady pictured who brought Shedman a miniature homemade shed with a poem inside it. John helped to round off the festival with an hour long Breakfast Shed Show in Ledbury's famous Market Hall which he claims looks a bit like a half timbered elephant shed. Many of the stories will be posted by Shedman on his
website and blogssoon.
John is also very busy on another project,
Our Storeys at North Middlesex University Hospital in Enfield till the end of July. You can meet him outside the Spice of Life Restaurant at the North Middlesex University Hospital on Monday 27th, Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th July from 10am-4pm and in Emsworth at Havant Literary Festival from 2nd-4th October.
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I like this variation on a garden office theme. It's the public space at the Department of Art & Culture in Rotterdam: there's a 40m hallway with a 10m space and the brief included areas for lounging, meeting, displaying leaflets and housing a small library.
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Paul Barton from Roomworks writes to say that they are regularly asked if they can produce really tiny garden office rooms. "So we've put one together - same super-insulated shell 100mm SIPS walls, floor, roof, etc - but just smaller," he says. "We were inspired by the Carre d'etoiles post on Shedworking recently and we will be incorporating something similar in our MOONROOM - satellite website on the launch pad! The working title for the ad campaign is "When you want more space and don't want it to cost the earth" We're trying to bring these in under £5,000 and the spec is high - so it'll be really good value."
Low energy building specialist and garden office supplier Vivid Green is looking for innovative leisure companies to help design an ultra low energy holiday lodge. "As well as reducing energy bills and creating a more comfortable environment for guests, the low energy/off-grid approach offers leisure companies the opportunity to extend their season at marginal cost," says VG's director Neil Johnston.
We often look at ways of bringing the garden into your garden office, but here's a particularly fabulous one at a lovely house in Nagoya designed by Suppose Design Office and showcased on the superduper dezeen who say: 
And here's what the Suppose folk say: 
John 'Shedman' Davies and his shed are having a busy time of it at the moment. For the second year running, John was at Ledbury Poetry Festival outside the Burgage Hall, starting all kinds of conversations with the question 'What's the first shed you ever remember?' Visitors included actress Linda Thorson (The Avengers, Emmerdale), Dame Joan Bakewell (who remembers her Grandfather's fire hazard of a shed at the back of a Manchester terrace) and Roger McGough, who described how his friend with an allotment shed had tried to encourage him in the ways of the soil, but to no avail.
John is also very busy on another project, Our Storeys at North Middlesex University Hospital in Enfield till the end of July. You can meet him outside the Spice of Life Restaurant at the North Middlesex University Hospital on Monday 27th, Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th July from 10am-4pm and in Emsworth at Havant Literary Festival from 2nd-4th October. 
Thursday posts are sponsored by Vivid Green, the low energy garden building specialists. Click here for more details
