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[Closed] Could McMoonter Tower's Pool Hoose be the 'Shed of the Year'?

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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!


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:53 pm
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Excellent work Mc M. Good luck.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 11:02 pm
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**** me


 
Posted : 25/05/2014 1:02 am
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Really **** me sideways , I want to hear the rain on the Tim roof
For ****s sake


 
Posted : 25/05/2014 1:06 am
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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.


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 1:52 pm
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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....


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 2:06 pm
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Pete, if you'd told me, I could have made myself available to go in your place...


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 2:11 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 2:18 pm
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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.....


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 4:01 pm
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McM - best of luck and drink them dry
😉


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 4:19 pm
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[url= http://lookatmy****ingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk ]http://lookatmyfackingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk[/url]


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 5:13 pm
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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


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 5:26 pm
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this is how fashionista zeitgeist Londoners think rural types visiting london dress:
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Posted : 10/07/2014 5:30 pm
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good luck!!


 
Posted : 10/07/2014 5:32 pm
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Page 7 of the Telegraph today!


 
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/


 
Posted : 16/07/2014 6:51 am
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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.


 
Posted : 16/07/2014 8:06 am
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Looks fantastic. I like the one made of bottles too... 🙂


 
Posted : 16/07/2014 8:14 am
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Now I feel that I definitely don't have enough ambition
Good luck and enjoy London, if that's possible


 
Posted : 16/07/2014 8:42 am
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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? 😉


 
Posted : 16/07/2014 8:50 am
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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....


 
Posted : 16/07/2014 8:55 am
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"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


 
Posted : 19/07/2014 6:13 pm
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Oooh just seen it on the trailer for the show.


 
Posted : 19/07/2014 11:03 pm
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"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.

😀


 
Posted : 19/07/2014 11:22 pm
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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. 🙂


 
Posted : 20/07/2014 12:07 am
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Shameless plug, the Pool Hoose features in the trailer.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/amazing-spaces-shed-of-the-year/videos/all/amazing-spaces-shed-of-the-year-trailer


 
Posted : 23/07/2014 10:28 pm
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Just seen the trailer. All looks pretty good for tonight.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 7:04 pm
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GO MCMOONTER!


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:00 pm
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nice, very nice


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:06 pm
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bollocks, I'm still at work, was looking forward to this.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:08 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:08 pm
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Swoon, what a shed and what a voice. Awesome.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:08 pm
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That's not how he sounds when I read what he types 😉


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:09 pm
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Looks fantastic, I could have watched an hour of just mcmoonter's shed 🙂


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:09 pm
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What a lovely looking place! Cracking shed.
Great to put a face to a (user) name too.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:10 pm
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pffft..... eco shed....concrete?? should be disqualified. mcmoonter for the win!!

EDIT: boooooooooooo 🙁


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:25 pm
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No justice in the world!


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:26 pm
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McMoonter, I missed his thread when it came out, but that poolhouse is really nicely done. I showed the pics to Mrs busydog and she said if you wanted to adopt us and have us live there, we would pay our own way from the USA 😀


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:36 pm
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Got home just in time. Failed to put Ch4 HD on. Started watching, then the phone went - my mum - then as she's rambling, the doorbell rang. The in-laws!

Ch4+1 it is then..., *sigh*


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:49 pm
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pruning cuts in pic 20 are horrendous..


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 8:59 pm
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Absolutely superb McMoonter! Really impressive to have created this virtually single handed and in only a week or so......bravo. Got lucky with the weather for the filming i see too


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 9:11 pm
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Just watching on +1 good work sir. Bloody nice that.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 9:16 pm
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Tip Top work. You was robbed.


 
Posted : 24/07/2014 9:33 pm
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On the bed with shoes on! - no manners these "designers" 🙂

Nice place - Mrs asked about midges (from the pools) and how cold / noisy the roof got in winter.

Really wish we had a bit more space....


 
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