Green roofs and Shedworking in The Idler

The new issue of The Idler magazine is out now featuring my usual column on sheds and garden offices which this time takes a look at the very popular option of a green roof featuring examples from Rotunda Roundhouses and eDEN Garden Rooms (pictured below). Those interested in snooker too will also find something of interest in my other column in the magazine which focuses on nostalgia and how to choose a snooker partner.

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Garden office for psychotherapist

A wonderful garden office which rather reminds the Shedworking staff of the one featured heavily in the recent BBC comedy-drama Wanderlust. This one was built by Booths Garden Studios and is owned by psychotherapist Emma Todd as you can see in the video below.

The aim was to make it both completely independent of her house (the reason for a lavatory and kitchen) but also homely so that clients would feel at home. Features include full-length windows with a fanlight window in the bathroom, a flyover roof with gravel in front of the building rather than decking, and movement-sensitive lights to light the way during darkness. An external air conditioning unit is carefully hidden round the side.

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Last year for the Beach Hut Advent Calendar

After a decade of opening beach hut advent calendar doors every day during advent along the promenade at Brighton and Hove, Beyond Church have announced that this will be the last year they do so as they will be developing other projects. It's had a good run - one year I did a daily update for The Independent when they first started - and we've been delighted here at Shedworking to preview and report back on each year's beach huts.

It was created to remind people of the Christian roots of the season of Advent. Over the years they have served more than 4,000 warm drinks and 3,000 mince pies. You can see this year's timetable at their site here and we'll be highlighting some of our favourites during December, This year the theme is #FollowtheStar which links to the Church of England's Christmas campaign.

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How bet365 started in a hut

bet365 is in the news this week thanks to its founder and owner Denise Coates who, it emerges, paid herself a £265 million salary last year, up from £217 million the year before. The rights and wrongs of this aside, it is interesting to note that the Financial Times mentions that the business was started from a hut in a car park in Stoke. Actually, in a rare interview with The Guardian half a dozen years ago, Denise Coates revealed that it was actually a Portakabin near one of their betting shops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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eDEN Garden Room's free festive upgrades

eDEN Garden Rooms are running a promotion, offering a free upgrade on new garden rooms booked in one of their build slots in December this year and January 2019. The four people who get these slots can choose from:

* Wireless heating and lighting control
* Bose wireless speaker system
* £500 off their garden room order

Confirm your preferred upgrade at the time of confirmation and they will add it to your order. Terms and conditions here.  ------------------------------------------

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Garden shed DJ gets BBC Christmas radio special

Here's a lovely story about Stevenage shedworker Deke Duncan. He's been broadcasting his own radio station, Radio 77 (essentially only to his wife Teresa because of licensing issues) for decades from his garden shed, pictured above.

#OnThisDay 1974: "The station's entire audience has decided to go down the shops" Radio 77 held the dubious distinction of broadcasting to the smallest audience in the country. pic.twitter.com/xkUZnfAPpR

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) October 9, 2018

Watch the short video above for more details about what happened 40 years ago, then the one below for the latest update...

Back in 1974, Deke Duncan ran a radio studio in his garden shed which broadcast to just one person - his wife. His lifelong ambition was to broadcast to the whole of Stevenage 📻

This morning he co-presented a show with @justindealey and there was a very special surprise... pic.twitter.com/PGVWLhuN2k

— BBC Three Counties (@BBC3CR) November 18, 2018

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How to build a garden office - part 2 (video)

Continuing the series by Richard Fearon which started last week here.

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