 Ted keeping an eye on the hut during a pony club meeting (wearing his achievement badges!) Twenty years ago our founder John Bostock started to make this shepherd's hut for his one year old granddaughter Juliette, as a play house in the garden. It kept him out of the pub at the weekend and apart from the stove and the wheels, everything was sourced from the contents of our skips. It was finished in 2006 and had its first outing to the Axe Vale Festival that year. Unfortunately soon after its completion, John fell ill and later passed away from cancer. The hut continued to be very special to the family, used as a garden feature and taken regularly the Honiton Hill Rally where the family used to sleep in and cook in it. As a child Juliette would sit on the step and give people tours, a telling the story of how her Grandad had made it from skip finds. At shows she collected donations for Hospiscare Axminster, which had looked after John in his last days. In 2019 we noticed the floor was rotting badly. Frightened to try to repair it in case we made the damage worse, it was stored away in a shed. But now we have been very fortunate to find someone to lovingly restore it and it will be back at the Honiton Hill Rally in August 2026. Watch this space!
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