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Want to find yourself? Try the garden shed

Overnight it seems that the humble garden shed has been blasted into the realm of philosophical speculation, in the wake of a book by an American, Michael Pollan.

A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder has set the chattering classes humming, as the author grapples with existential doubts and finds himself through the simple act of building his own shed. Some of his tome may have claims to a place in Pseud's Corner, the column in Private Eye, but no one would deny that the dream of a garden shed has a powerful allure. A little haven of tranquillity at the bottom of the garden, it's an easy symbol of the good life, miles away from the ethos of B&Q, where, as a spokeswoman ...

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