Taxi driver's pub wins a shedload of glory Monday 02 July 2012 A man who converted his garden shed into a working pub has won the 2012 Shed of the Year competition.
John Plumridge spent four years of weekends creating his Woodhenge pub, fitting the work around his job as a taxi driver – and being a husband and father.
Mr Plumridge's den, which beat some 2,000 entries, saw him convert parts of his Shrewsbury garden into a public inn, complete with wooden interior and a collection of 550 real ales and 110 ciders. Mr Plumridge joked that he "shed" a tear when told he had won the accolade – but earnestly added that winning meant much more than the £1,000 prize money.
"I've been working on it for years and it was a hobby that just grew," he said. "I spent so many hours on it and just built it up over the years... Now it is priceless."
Mr Plumridge admitted he had a "patient" wife, but added: "What's outside is my business and what's inside is her business. I have been married 34 years. She doesn't ask me what I spent on it and I don't ask her what she spends on shoes and handbags."
Traditionally the refuge of the stressed husband – and often tolerated by many an equally stressed wife – things in the garden appear ripe for change.
Judges placed the Bostin Betty shed, by Paula Landlocked, as a runner-up. Mrs Landlocked, from Birmingham, designed her creation but enlisted her husband Dave to do the manual work.
Source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/th ... 02936.html
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