Monday, October 23, 2006

Sheds

When we used to live in Brierley Hill, I used to collect funny shed stories from the local paper, the Express & Star - there used to be loads about sheds getting burned down, having tools stolen, etc. and occasionally sheds getting blown down. There was one about a shed in Dudley being the first probation office in the borough, and another about a shed getting blown over a fence and on to a passing police car, although this was somewhere in the south west, rather than the Black Country.

There was also an article about a local artist who was making a study of local shed culture, and although I emailed her offering my help and expertise, I never heard back from her.

Now I have come across this website: http://www.readersheds.co.uk/readersheds/index.cfm
which in many ways is very good, shed-wise, but seems somehow worringly serious about sheds, and not sufficiently postmodern for my liking.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Try http://shedworking.blogspot.com for something far more postmodern or even subscribe to my free bimonthly pdf magazine The Shed for people who work in sheds or shedlike atmospheres.