Registered Charity Number 1212037Yes, it’s beginning to wing it! Friday was a very productive day, both morning and evening. In the morning the platform in front of the patio door was strengthened and boards secured and we attended to the big doors. Colin wood turned on, produced a great result…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Well, we start with Staithes and French cleats. Norton Shed has heard about French Cleats from their use at Staithes Shed. They are mounts that interlock to hold items in place on a vertical surface. What is French about them is lost in time but some think…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Dear Reader, The purpose of this piece is to explain more about the opportunities, limitations, ambitions of the Norton Shed for individual men and women. It is very much about individuals and their “jigsaw piece” fit into the overall jigsaw that is theirs. It hopefully will help…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The Shed movement started in Australia. The majority of the Sheds I’ve seen there (all 6!) have been large compared to those in Whitby and Norton. It was pleasing to receive the email below and photos of a new Aussie Shed more our size! Dear Graham and…
Registered Charity Number 1212037We’ve done a lot of Shed building this past few months. we are now moving to the phase of making use of the Shed! Last week we collected donated equipment from Preston Museum. It included an Axminster lathe in fire engine red. Today (Tuesday) Shedder Colin (a…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Norton Shedders on target to complete transformation of the interior of the Shed. We’ve cured the roof leaks (we believe!). New bright LED light battens, wall boards mounted, worktops installed, equipment storage in drawers and cupboards. And today (Tuesday 38/6/22) we found the water stop cock…
Registered Charity Number 1212037We are beginning to take on some new Shed attenders and to engage in more normal Shed activities. A new man, Colin, came on Tuesday. An ex-woodturner and a Meccano fanatic. He helped move equipment from the switch room onto the new long bench. Pat & Paul…
Registered Charity Number 1212037We focused in the previous blog on the demolition side of the Shed as we brought the ceiling down. We are on the up cycle in this blog as a new week started, Paul and Pat were there. Pat focused on some demolition at first (removing the…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Sometimes a day does not go the way it is planned. Tuesday was just such a day. The plan was to tackle and complete connecting the new LED battens and to install 2 drawer units and 2 cupboard units under the worktop fitted the previous weekend. It…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Could not resist this poster. Hard to do all the time but hopefully the Shed will provide a framework for supporting some of these. Work continued on Friday of the Platinum Jubilee . . . Two of the new (Howden) worktops were fixed in place on…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Unexpected, so it’s not our usual shower! We began to remove old lighting tubes to fit new LED battens in the Portakabin. Shedders Paul and Dave are just the right size for the job. We decided to rid ourselves of a bulge in the hardboard roof lining…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The point has been made previously that Sheds are built person by person. The nucleus of Shedders grows literally one by one. People are the bricks but their ability to relate to one another is the mortar that binds and makes a Shed resilient and something worth…
Registered Charity Number 1212037One of our “David” Shedders, Dave Tonner, has a number of surprising interests, one of which is throwing axes. Thankfully his interest is deeper than just throwing them, he also enjoys renovating them and other things. Dave has moved into a new house and in the shed…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Will and Kate on Loneliness this Mental Health Week. Mental health concerns exacerbated by loneliness (feeling not connected) affects us all, irrespective of class, at one time or another. Sometimes it can hang around like a personal cloud. We need to reach out to each other with…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Sheds are not a manufactured product that can be picked off the shelf like a car. They are more like a Lego kit of parts that are capable of being assembled in different ways for a common purpose – creative enjoyment! Today one of the original founding…
Registered Charity Number 1212037 1000 Stories is quite a tall order, though with around 500 Sheds registered it amounts to 2 stories per Shed! It’s being orchestrated by Louise Starks, a consultant, on behalf of UK Men’s Sheds Association. If you want to know more about it, just ask graham_storer@btinternet.com….
Registered Charity Number 1212037We wanted to finish off the roof of the Smoker’s “bus stop” at the Sports’ Club. New roofs on houses use “dry verges” to make the left and right verges (edges) of a tiled roof watertight. Was always simply mortared up in the past! Wet verge! “Let’s…
Registered Charity Number 1212037There is an interesting display at Preston Hall of things Viking. It would seem that they were into pole lathes too! This week the grandsons are off school and with us as grandparents. One of the things we started on Bank Holiday Monday was working through the…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Despite what you may think, Men’s Sheds are not the answer to everything. They answer a need for men & women who aspire to be doers (whether or not they already can!) and to meet with others on a regular basis. To be distracted from all kinds…
Registered Charity Number 1212037I mentioned to my Norton son about possibly making a pole lathe with my two grandsons. He produced two books with details in. Graham loves this cover illustration. Look carefully and you will see a pole lathe in the background. Notice the things kids are doing too…
