Last week I got an email then a phone call from a TV company that about to start filming a 'Shed of the Year' programme.
It's going to be a prime time Channel 4 show presented by George Clark.
They are hoping to do something on the Pool Hoose and a little summerhouse I built a few years back. Amazingly they are still standing. I built both in under a fortnight.
The researcher confided that they were both amongst the producer's favourites. That counts for little as the winner will be the product a public vote.
Either way, it has brought a frisson of excitement to our summer.
https://picasaweb.google.com/113038090087066024057/FrenchSummerhouse#
https://picasaweb.google.com/113038090087066024057/PoolHooseStudioProject2009#
Both are very nice. Might be worth checking all planning / building regs necessary were followed before agreeing to show them on TV though.
where can we vote?!!??! 😀
'Both are very nice. Might be worth checking all planning / building regs necessary were followed before agreeing to show them on TV though. '
That did cross my mind.
Voting? Nae idea yet.
Is that not the one you nearly dropped a tree onto?
That did cross my mind.
Too late. I've already grassed you up out of pure jealousy.
Is that not the one you nearly dropped a tree onto?
The very same. Must be fate.
Google wants me to create another flippin account before I can see your creations 👿
Every time my therapist helps me get my life back on track, McMoonter pops up with another amazing lifestyle thread.
*sobs uncontrollably*
MoreCashThanDash - Member
you're not alone, I feel more inadequate with every McM posting
[b]Best of luck Peter[/b]
We need a support group or something.....
Excellent - you should ping them some photos of the studio and the holzhausen. Get those wound into the narrative and you've got to be a shoe in.
Good luck!
Every time my therapist helps me get my life back on track, McMoonter pops up with another amazing lifestyle thread.*sobs uncontrollably*
LOL Me too. Serves me right for wasting my time looking after the disabled. I really need another job with pay and prospects and stuff.
Nice one MM .... I'd certainly say they deserve to be included.
My only word of warning [this is for egeneric TV participation] is that the production company have you by the balls. They can shoot the footage and then put it together any way they want and either make you look like a hero or k**b - it seems it's how the director or producer feels will get them the best ratings.
[This is my experience from taking part in a series a couple of years ago. I/we got out of it unscathed but some people were portrayed in a less than flattering light].
Anyway with G Clarke involved I suspect it will be pretty good and defo one to watch 🙂
Neither of those are sheds 😕
njee20 - Member
Neither of those are sheds
Heretic!!
if George Clark comes to your house can you do me a favour and make sure he has an "accident" under one of your ubiqutous woodpiles?
Wow 2 stunning sheds. Good luck.
How exciting.
I like the programmes that George makes.
I also like the soft furnishings in the 'pool house' - written to annoy Stoner 😉
njee20 - Member
Neither of those are sheds
Agreed. I have two sheds but neither are quite a nice as those.
Do people actually sleep in the Pool House? Given how far north you are I would guess it is quite chilly.
Obviously happy to vote for you. I assume we can vote online multiple times.
'Do people actually sleep in the Pool House?'
The USP that won the guys over was the fact that you can indeed sleep in it. It's registered on warmshowers.org as a place passing touring cyclists can overnight in. Already this year we've had a Canadian girl and a German guy come to stay and we have a couple from California due in July.
I have only a little building experience but lots of enthusiasm, that probably more than anything helps me get things done. I seldom start a project with a complete materials list nor any real idea of how it will turn out. I'm a painter by training, so I employ a similar organic process to how I build stuff.
the poolhouse with the bed in it is 100% of awesome
The TV guys are coming tomorrow so we've had a bit of a tidy up in the Pool Hoose. My only regret is that we wont have these two Argentinian Warmshowers guests here in time for the filming. They arrive on Thursday evening. Pedal faster guys and you could be on TV.
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I've just emailed Admin to ask for your "member" title to be changed to read "Arthur Two-Sheds Jackson."
If they are going to do a Summerhouse of the year, then why don't they call it "SUMMERHOUSE of the YEAR"?
This is a shed
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Yeah, I'm bloody happy for you.
Shed my arse! That's nicer than my house...if it's a shed where are the half-used tins of paint?
Also...warmshowers.org...I was worried it might be NSFW 😉 but actually that could come in dead handy..
Dez, are you nominated as well ?
You might want to see about, nah, forget it - perfect as it is
[i]Dez, are you nominated as well ?[/i]
How could I be? I don't have a summer/pool house.
(or a shed, for that matter)
I've got an old tea chest you could use Dez
I'll have to search round a bit though; think it's in the east wing somewhere 😉
I can confirm people do sleep in the Poolhouse. I did and very nice it was too. Ta 🙂
I have a shed. It's full of firewood, spider webs and mouse droppings. I feel very inadequate.
The TV guys are coming tomorrow
Get a picture of Big George doing a wave for the STW massive.
If Kevin McCloud was coming he'd get your statue pregnant.
The researcher confided that they were both amongst the producer's favourites.
This was an outright lie.
That counts for little as the winner will be the product a public vote.
This is also probably a lie.
Welcome to Television. 😉
Iron that new bed sheet.
Also...warmshowers.org...I was worried it might be NSFW
It's a really good resource. I only used it once in the States. It had been a hellish couple of days with torrential rain and storm force headwinds. With nowhere to camp I checked out the site. There were three WS hosts around Salem. The first I called was in and at short notice they said I should come and stay. The forecast was bad for the next day so they insisted I stay a second night. It was one of my tour highlights.
It's a site that is growing in momentum. Well worth registering on if you are planning a tour.
That's the guys from Channel 4 just away. They've been working flat out from 9 o'clock. It was fascinating seeing the production process. I keen to hear how the rain sounded on the tin roof in the final cut.
The cameraman works regularly on Top Gear and the Director does a lot of stuff with James May. He made the Meccano motorbike around the TT circuit film. Top day!
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Happy cameraman seems to think he's holding a death-ray gun.
EDIT: Also a strange miniature person appears to be hovering vertically in the background.
mcm - make sure you PSA when it's going to be on the box as I have no idea whats on when these days. Will really love to see some footage of mcmoonter towers.
and why arent you wearing your "special jumper" 😉 ?
He isn't?
Happy cameraman seems to think he's holding a death-ray gun.
LOL
Good luck with the vote sir. Tis very nice is that.
Bookmarks warm showers for when I'm too tired to bike back over the bridge.
'make sure you PSA when it's going to be on the box as I have no idea whats on when these days. Will really love to see some footage of mcmoonter towers.'
Will do.
My understanding is the show has something like five categories. Eco sheds, unique sheds, home offices, workshops and Tradii (if there is a plural of Tardis). They'll have broadcast a selection from each category one night a week or one a night for a week. A finalist will be selected from each round and be put to a public vote.
Award night is July 17, Tom the director said to keep that date free.
They did a bit of filming around the garden and the house, which may well work against me. I'm not a toff and everything planted or built we've done with our own hands. On the plus side they said they'd illustrate my entry with some paintings from my website which is a bonus. It was a lot of fun building the Pool Hoose, it survived a near death tree fall. http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/tree-surgeons-will-i-die-if-i-try-this
The guys were very enthusiastic and Max even interviewed me from the comfort of the freshly ironed bed linen, so they were pretty relaxed and I hope they enjoyed their visit as much as I did
if they came to see you, who is the red legged geezer taking centre stage in the pic above?
Really looking forward to seeing that, I love programmes like that, and, having followed various mcm threads with varying degrees of admiration and outright jealousy, it'll be fascinating to see the 'live' version!
That's the guys from Channel 4 just away. They've been working flat out from 9 o'clock. It was fascinating seeing the production process. I keen to hear how the rain sounded on the tin roof in the final cut.
A good friend of mine did a spot on 'Escape To The Country' showing how to make a Lardy Cake. The team with presenter rocked up at her hotel/restaurant at around 7am, and didn't leave until 7pm, stopping further along the road, (the Fosseway), for some sunset atmosphere shots.
Caron, my friend, was exhausted, and she had experience doing a BBC TV series!
The actual sequence was around five minutes long!
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Excellent work Mc M. Good luck.
**** me
Really **** me sideways , I want to hear the rain on the Tim roof
For ****s sake
I'm off down to Londonshire this afternoon for the award ceremony tomorrow.
They are sending a car to pick us up from home to take us to the airport, then they're taking us to a s****y hotel for a couple of nights.
Seems a million miles away from digging the post holes the Pool Hoose was built upon. I know which I prefer more.
Out of curiosity, and ignorance, do you need planning permission for stuff like the poolhoose?
I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd be tempted to plan a trip for the purpose of overnighting in it....
Pete, if you'd told me, I could have made myself available to go in your place...
I viewed it as a temporary structure, it's not overlooked by anyone and it is a fraction of the size of the main house, so I didn't apply to nor checked the regs.
I'm off down to Londonshire this afternoon for the award ceremony tomorrow.
Remember, don't look anyone in the eye and avoid speaking to strangers. If you're lucky, you'll make it back alive.....
McM - best of luck and drink them dry
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Top guys.
Spot the "londoner dressing how he thinks everyone in the countryside dresses"
edit, beeten to it : http://lookatmyfackingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk
this is how fashionista zeitgeist Londoners think rural types visiting london dress:
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good luck!!
Page 7 of the Telegraph today!
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Hmm, some odd and less than likeable efforts in that shortlist. McM's is defo a contender for me as it's more natural, made for recycled stuff and doesn't shout "look at me". The fact that the article states that it sits between two pools might put off public voters (if that's who are voting) as it'll appear to be part of a huge rambling country estate.
Looks fantastic. I like the one made of bottles too... 🙂
Now I feel that I definitely don't have enough ambition
Good luck and enjoy London, if that's possible
Amazing, some great sheds in there (but a lot of fairly bog standard ones too). I reckon McMoonter is in with a shout.
I didn't realise it was in Fife, who has a pool in Fife, never mind two? 😉
That poolhouse is the shizzle, bloody love it! As for the other one, id personally want to put the French in something a bit smaller and darker 😯 (Gimp chest from pulp fiction comes to mind) So you get 1/2 a vote from me....
"The fact that the article states that it sits between two pools might put off public voters (if that's who are voting) as it'll appear to be part of a huge rambling country estate. "
This will be the nail in my coffin
Oooh just seen it on the trailer for the show.
"The fact that the article states that it sits between two pools might put off public voters (if that's who are voting) as it'll appear to be part of a huge rambling country estate. "This will be the nail in my coffin
Ahh…. but it could be two pools of steaming slurry, or two pools of stagnant water or two pools of septic tank overflow……. - it's open to interpretation so perhaps all will be well.
A mate of mine has 900 acres of Galloway hunting/shooting estate, from some viewpoints it is the most idyllic place you could ever set eyes upon, from other viewpoints it resembles a poorer version of a Steptoe & Sons scrapyard.
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Shed of the year,first of three parts, starts on Channel 4 at 20:00hrs on Thursday the 24th of July. 🙂
Shameless plug, the Pool Hoose features in the trailer.
Just seen the trailer. All looks pretty good for tonight.
GO MCMOONTER!
nice, very nice
bollocks, I'm still at work, was looking forward to this.
The George Clarke drinking game.
Every time he says "That's sooo cute" you have to drink half a pint of your own piss. First to die wins.
Swoon, what a shed and what a voice. Awesome.
That's not how he sounds when I read what he types 😉
Looks fantastic, I could have watched an hour of just mcmoonter's shed 🙂