Registered Charity Number 1212037Making Tracks is the title of an application for funding made to LNER for a new project phase that would, if successful, start in April 2026. They call that a long haul. It is certainly quite a long wait. If it is not successful will it have…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Take a look at this news item from BBC. Just skim it maybe to see the gist. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3ep76g3go Unemployed young people paying to attend a simulated office environment to be with others like themselves. Trying to find a way forward. Does it ring the bell of Sheds! …
Registered Charity Number 1212037The first surprise was precisely 1 minute ago when opening the website to add a post. Up came a summary showing daily visitor numbers to this website for yesterday (Friday). It was 64. This is at least a 10-fold increase on the norm! Digging deeper, a world…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Almost 6 months of mental and manual graft has seen the Billingham International Folk Festival stage backdrop puff out of Norton Shed. Well, on the back of a flatbed truck. It’s been a challenge but one in which most of the Shedders had a hand – even…
Registered Charity Number 1212037An opportunity for Shedders (or others!) to comment on a new postcard intended for promoting Shedding Light Into Cancer. Hands to the mop cleaning the floor and walls in the IT Room to-be Jacko (spot the difference between the mop and Jacko!) puts in a lot of…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Good news, as well as bad (!) travels fast. Today we welcomed a film crew and a PR company representative on behalf of The Teesside. Charity who awarded us a grant a few months ago in the Pitch for Purpose event. They interviewed 5 Shedders as part…
Registered Charity Number 1212037We are all going bananas! Norton Shed has a diverse bunch of Shedders. Bunch is a good way to describe them and the Shed, because a bunch or hand of bananas is a good illustration! Better explain that! Bananas are joined in hands/bunches that are fed and watered…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Celebrating what small, local organisations (not just Norton Men’s Shed) can do for our community – the people! We begin with the same reminder we often provide that we are part of a community jigsaw, already connected but with need to deepen connections. Fit for the Future…
Registered Charity Number 1212037My generation by The Who https://youtu.be/qN5zw04WxCc Some of the oddities going on Not Just Filling Time but Filling with Purpose This is a draft of a presentation/discussion by Graham and Paul to a small (??) gathering at Norton Medical Centre next week. Shedders comments welcomed. Not…
Registered Charity Number 1212037A thought that came to mind in the cool of the early morning on what is forecast to be another hot day in Norton. It’s not a Shed day (it’s the weekend) and inevitably the thought came – what’s to do today? It was very quickly followed…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The Shed is not a homogeneous project on the ground. It has layers of activity, like skins on mobile phones, as it continues to evolve. So, let us look at some of the skins that continue to develop, starting with fridges. Very useful in the hot weather…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Nothing to do with trains, though, unless it is trains of thought! We are pleased to announce plans for a new Shed. The Norton Plastic Shed! It will be part of Norton Men’s Shed and have a place to call home there, but most of the action…
Registered Charity Number 1212037 Express Fun Delivery from Norton Shed Many Shedders and Nortonians of a certain age will remember how fast trains were. London to Brighton in a tad over 3 minutes. Courtesy of BBC in 1953 (and time lapse photography). While we are in the past (and…
Registered Charity Number 1212037A major push is on to move Locomotion on to its final stages With the engine and the tender well on with being painted (awaiting some ochre paint) the two passenger carriages will be built in the original style. They should be ready by next weekend. The…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The desgn for the candleabra for the Big Ball 20 needed. 20 bases, 20 top bosses, 80 bends, 80 bolts and (not shown) 20 base trays. 4.5 hours compressed into 12 seconds 22.5 Elbow 4 off Print time 2 Hrs Top 5…
Registered Charity Number 1212037 Locomotion 1 continues its progress through the carriage works where some is ready for painting and the wheels are being forged. Upcycling for the Orchard Community Garden The allotment project spoke a couple of months ago about needing a toolshed. It has evolved but into something that…
Registered Charity Number 1212037There are some brilliantly memorable sketches from TV past, including the Two Ronnies show. Someone else did the dead parrot! Here is 3D Paul’s take on it for consideration by Daisy Chain next door. They want candelabra, one per table with twenty tables. Do the maths. Each…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Mental Health Awareness Week 12th – 18th May 2025 Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week – bringing the UK together to focus on getting good mental health. This year, the week takes place from 12 to 18 May 2025 and the theme…
Registered Charity Number 1212037 Shed on a Page Norton Men’s Shed (Normens) A personal perspective by Graham Storer drafted for UK Men’s Sheds Association magazine “Shoulder to Shoulder” and approved by Shed Trustees! In the beginning there were 4 Sheds in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The first was a very rural…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Wheelchair Steve is always on the roll. We have immortalised him in plastic and shrunk him to appear on our model railway, at several locations probably. Perhaps to be realistic, we ought to have a broken down lift accessed by three steps with no model staff around…
