THE JOY OF SHEDS
The Joy of Sheds : Because a Man's Place Isn't in the Home
By:Andrew Davies, Frank Hopkinson,
Publisher:Anova Books
Imprint:Portico
ISBN/EAN:1907554513 / 9781907554513
Format:Hardback
Pagination:160 pages, Over 20 illustrations
Dimensions:198 x 129 mm, 318 grams
Country of Pub.:United Kingdom
Pub Date:17/05/2012
The Joy of Sheds is a shed miscellany that chronicles man's need for a small space on his own. It's a humorous look at every aspect of the shed experience, mixed with shed facts and some practical information too. Many famous people have created in sheds.
Inventor Trevor Baylis thought up the clockwork radio in a shed, George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalian in one and Dylan Thomas would compose poetry in his. The average UK male does not tend to devote his shed to poetry, though. Along with chapters on how to customize your shed into an exotic creation, "Pimp Your Shed", there are "Shed Facts": Almost a fifth of men have had an accident in a shed, it's the single most dangerous place in the home after the kitchen.
Other chapters include "Shed Vision", on the typical items stored in sheds, and "The Genus Shed", which places the shed in the Linnaean order of buildings. "Shed Experience" pulls in shed stories from around the world, but particularly Australia, and there are also tales of the "Euro-Shed". There are chapters on "Sheds in Literature" (Lady Chatterly's Lover and Cold Comfort Farm), "Sheds at the Movies", and "Sheds in Music".
