Tuesday Plotlines
A quick dash to the plot this morning between the stormy showers, in the main just to make sure that the all the canes supporting tomatoes and beans are standing up to the strong winds and of course to...
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What happened to summer? I don’t know what the temperatures are like with you but here it’s definitely more mid September than August and despite the sunshine I’ve already had to delve into the...
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There’s only one way to describe the plot this morning and that’s soggy. What’s become apparent in the last couple of days however is that it is very much a plot of two halves and that whilst I am...
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This week sees us fresh back from a family holiday in Cornwall. In the normal scheme of things I visit the plot most days and do a few ‘jobs’, little and often being the thing in my mind, and it seems...
View ArticleChilli Challenge September Update
Still playing a bit of catch up here is the September update on the chillies. I think I said in the last post that things were starting to look a bit frayed around the edges. Well I might have to back...
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Wow, where did that month go? My friend Annie said yesterday that she didn’t like to ask about the lack of blog posts in case Derek had run off with another woman! Nothing quite so interesting I’m...
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Hello Monday! And for once I’m glad to see it. After a gloomy and cold Sunday, that saw me scurrying back from the plot after less than an hour, we have a gloriously balmy autumn day with full sun and...
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Very wet and weirdly warm for the time of year best describes the weather here at the moment. I arrived at the plot yesterday morning to find the entrance to the site under six inches of water. A...
View ArticleThe Allotment Pre Plan
If the press are to be believed today is ‘blue Monday’. On such a glorious day? Really? You’ve got to love a media construct, designed no doubt to make us all feel a little bit worse about things than...
View ArticleRSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2015
This weekend sees the return of the Big Garden Birdwatch, the annual event organised by the Royal Society of Protection to Birds (RSPB) to survey our local wildlife. Now in it’s 36th year this is a...
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