Tips for Laying a Base for a Garden Workshop/Shed

15 June 2023 - Joanna Hazelton
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Hurrah!! The days of our garden doubling up as a workshop are finally over!! No more lathe. No more hammers and saws. No more power tools and extension cables. Peace, quiet and calm has resumed. Our garden table has become an outdoor pizza preparing space again rather than a workbench and we can now look […]

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Top Tips for Buying a Garden Shed

13 January 2016 - Joanna Hazelton
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Did you know 7% of UK shed owners hide secret shopping receipts, 8% store secret cigarettes and 9% keep naughty snacks in their sheds? And one in five of us like spending time in the shed to avoid our partners. Apparently eating Mars Bars and smoking crafty cigarettes. So while you ponder on what you’re […]

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So What Are You Going To Use Your Garden Storage For?

10 October 2013 - Joanna Hazelton
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My husband is well aware of the hazards of being in our garden having had the odd flowerpot or two lobbed at him by me over the years.
So when I read that, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, flowerpots are the second most dangerous thing in the garden after lawn mowers, it was good to get affirmation that I obviously wasn’t the only one using flowerpots as a means of persuasion.
However, on reading further, it transpired that being hit by low flying flowerpots isn’t actually the danger. The official reason is that they are one of the prime tripping hazards in a garden.

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Keep Your Bike in the Bedroom and Your Husband in the Shed

8 October 2012 - Joanna Hazelton
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We’re all well aware of the ‘pleb’ scandal that is surrounding Andrew Mitchell and what he did or did not call the policemen as he cycled past. I’m certainly not going to throw my opinion on what happened into the mix. But seeing the Chief Whip on his bike, together with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nick Clegg and George Osborne all championing the virtues of cycling to work, it did bring to mind an interesting question.

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