Since loosing our lease we've been on the tortuous search for a new building,except we haven't really got into it yet because we're just too busy.

As you'll see if you check out earlier posts from Brian and I, we've made the best of things by making sure we meet up in town every day to plan what we need to work on, then head back home to get on with it.

Which for Bri is the beach and for me the Garden.

So this article on the Guardian's fantastic website set me thinking.....have a read.

"Over the last decade we have witnessed the miniaturisation of the office workplace. A cramped outbuilding which once housed lawnmowers and pots can now comfortably be insulated from the cold, fitted with its own electrics, and link you to anywhere in the world. It's an alternative workplace revolution. It's shedworking.

There are now more than 2.5m businesses being run from home.

The famous shedworkers who have attracted the most attention are artists and writers such as Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl, Henry Thoreau and Henry Moore (and there is a longer history to shedworking than some might think: the 18th-century man of letters William Cowper had what he called a "sulking room" in the garden at his home in Orchard Side, Buckinghamshire, where he wrote much of his poetry and prose). Nowadays you're just as likely to find accountants, lawyers and software specialists at the bottom of the garden as you are sculptors, because garden offices are big business.

Shedworking certainly has much to recommend it. Physically, it's easier to prevent – or at least restrict – your family and pets from invading your workspace. There is no need to double up on spaces, leaving your bedrooms and kitchen tables free for their intended purposes. Financially, it adds value to your property, up to 5% according to some experts, and installing an office in the garden is certainly far cheaper than buying a house with an extra room. Psychologically, shedworking marks a clear difference between where you live and where you work – there's no taint of work attached to any part of your home. Finally – and, if we're honest, the clincher for many shedworkers – it is just plain more fun, adding a certain pizzazz to your ­working life.

Moreover, commuting to the end of your garden is an option as popular among women as men. While nothing seems as unshakeable as men's interest in a shed-like manspace, over the last few years women have been quietly redefining shedlife, turning the new breed of garden buildings into places to work, create and think"

It's certainly set me thinking, now where did we put all those D&AD's....