The blog of Mandy Sutter - Writer https://www.mandysutter.com/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:31:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.mandysutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/favicon-base-100x100.jpg Mandy Sutter – Writer https://www.mandysutter.com/ 32 32 Garden Window https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/garden-window/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/garden-window/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:01:28 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=614 Ted the Shed is sitting in very good company this week in a display of gardening books in The Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. Do pop in if you’re local! And if not, Ted the Shed is still available to order from my website at www.mandysutter.com

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/garden-window/feed/ 0 Ted at York Gate Garden https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-at-york-gate-garden/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-at-york-gate-garden/#respond Sun, 10 Nov 2024 11:24:20 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=552 Ted the Shed is now available to buy at the gift shop at York Gate Garden, Adel, Leeds. It’s a place close to my heart, perhaps because there is a (modest) echo with Ted the Shed, the story of our own family gardening project. York Gate Garden was created between 1951 and 1994 by one […]

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-at-york-gate-garden/feed/ 0 Listen to Ted the Shed Free https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/listen-to-ted-the-shed-free/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/listen-to-ted-the-shed-free/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:10:28 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=536 If you fancy listening to Ted the Shed rather than (or as well as) reading it, the first episode is now available to hear totally free of charge on the app Insight Timer, recorded in my own dulcet tones. Chapter One of my daft memoir about my Dad’s allotment has already received some great reviews. […]

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/listen-to-ted-the-shed-free/feed/ 0 Ted now available on Kindle https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-now-available-on-kindle/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-now-available-on-kindle/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:14:25 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=522 Ted the Shed, my memoir about my Dad’s allotment, has this week come out as an E-book and is now available to buy on Amazon. Mike, my publisher, had never published an E-book before, so we weren’t initially sure where to pitch it price wise and whether the illustrations would come out okay. I’d read […]

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-now-available-on-kindle/feed/ 0 Ted for sale at Crag House Farm https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-for-sale-at-crag-house-farm/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-for-sale-at-crag-house-farm/#respond Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:29:55 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=510 Ted the Shed is now in stock at the beautiful farm/gift shop at Crag House Farm in Leeds. I knew their ethos was to champion local suppliers (such as Leeds Bread Co-operative and Horsforth Honey) but didn’t dare hope this extended to local authors too! They have an extensive plant nursery there and a great […]

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-for-sale-at-crag-house-farm/feed/ 0 Ted the Shed hits Bolton Abbey https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-the-shed-hits-bolton-abbey/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-the-shed-hits-bolton-abbey/#respond Sun, 02 Jun 2024 15:04:50 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=492 Ted the Shed, the illustrated story of my 87-year-old Dad’s allotment, is now in stock at both the gift shops at Bolton Abbey, Skipton in Yorkshire. I’m super delighted by this. Firstly, I love Bolton Abbey. When we rescued our nervous German Shepherd dog five years ago, it was the only place she deemed safe […]

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-the-shed-hits-bolton-abbey/feed/ 0 Hooray for Moss & Moor https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/hooray-for-moss-moor/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/hooray-for-moss-moor/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:57:48 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=474 A shout out to Moss & Moor Garden Centre in Ilkley, who actually BUY books and other products from the independent stockists they deal with and who are shortly going to place an order for some copies of my new illustrated gardening memoir, Ted the Shed. It’s a refreshing change. These days, if you’re an […]

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]]> https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/hooray-for-moss-moor/feed/ 0 Ted the Shed is out https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-the-shed-is-out/ https://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ted-the-shed-is-out/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:20:02 +0000 https://www.mandysutter.com/?p=454 I’m delighted to say that my new book about my Dad and the allotment he rashly took on aged 87 is out now. The book tells the story of the last ten years of Dad’s life and our gardening relationship, full of resentment, disappointment and potatoes that grow large enough to appear on Google Earth. […]

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