The Shed

SHARING A SHED

short distance up North East Valley, Dunedin, is a community shed. When we visit, there’s a woman outside, prepping steel brackets for painting — turns out they’re part of her electric-car conversion. There’s a strange bike-towed caravan parked on the footpath. People are working on their bikes in the communal space, a man is demonstrating e-bikes to a middle-aged couple. Further inside, we

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