An allotment joy:
Wandering to your plot with no particular plans. Whiling away a warm evening hour, weeding and catching up on village gossip.
An allotment joy
2 June, 2009
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My skill set
25 May, 2009I blog, badly.
I make jam; marmalade too.
I grow vegetables: I have a hoe.
I build stuff: dowel A fits in hole D?
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Allotment recap
20 April, 2009April’s potato planting: Dunluce double rows; Desiree times three; couple of potted spuds.
Broad beans and cabbage flourishing.
Runner bean and pea trenches dug.
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Holiday Monday spending
13 April, 2009Holiday Monday means gardening spending. Lavender, marigolds, nasturtiums, cornflower and sweet peas for complimentary planting. Peat-free compost, organic slug pellets to bed and protect.
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Rewards
12 April, 2009Smell mix: tequila and Jeyes fluid. Scored margaritas this weekend: rewards for greenhouse cleaning, potato planting and general busying.
Also scored sweet Lindt chocolate.
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Ruddy face
5 April, 2009Allotment: planted surprise cabbages, thanks Gordon. Red onions and early potatoes buried yesterday.
Greenhouse: cucumbers, tomatoes’ new friends.
Face: ruddy and tingling with sun.
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Summer in March
23 March, 2009Allotment: drew map of beds, measured and planned planting. Potato beds too narrow.
The end of summer in March. Trade allotment for desk tomorrow.
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Relationships 101 – fail
19 March, 2009This mild spell. Do we get payback – wet June – or does water rationing start tomorrow?
Fifty: yet, I continue to fail Relationships 101.
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White blanket
5 March, 2009
Woke to a white blanket.
Day off: gardening not possible; installed smoke alarms after hour search for drill chuck key.
Jacko? This isn’t it.
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