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OCD on the Plot

April 9, 2009
OCD on the Plot

As you know from previous posts, spring has been creeping up and catching me all out of sorts on the plot. My digging and general pottering time has been a little curtailed this year and as a result all my horticultural efforts seem to be taking me further and further away from award winning standards. [...]

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Blunt Trauma

February 20, 2009
Blunt Trauma

I rounded the corner whistling away to a tune on the iPod and came face to face with this scene of blunt trauma nastiness. Blasted vandals. Not worth getting upset about it though and as my trangia and ‘room of one’s own’ mug were still intact, I managed to start the whistling again. I ignored [...]

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Angel of the North

April 28, 2008
Angel of the North

I’ve just been taking a look at the google earth image of my plot. I was wondering if my attempts to improve the surface of my tiny portion of the Earth were visible to the man in the moon yet. It seems like google haven’t updated their satellite images since around November 07 as the [...]

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Stolen Time

March 27, 2008
Stolen Time

The weekend forecast is pretty dismal again so when I woke this morning to glorious sunshine I thought it was too good to waste and quickly swapped my annual leave arrangements. By 9am I was out on the riverbank, squeezing in another neglected pastime by running to the plot. Typically, when I arrived the sunshine [...]

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Solar Treat

February 11, 2008
Solar Treat

Another glorious weekend and I managed to sneak two full days on the plot. I was supposed to be out on my long run on Sunday afternoon but I’m finding it increasingly hard to drag myself away from the shed. With weather like this I can stretch out on my bench with my feet on [...]

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Paths and Peaches

February 3, 2008
Paths and Peaches

Great weekend, the sort that requires another weekend to recover from though. The widely forecast snow didn’t rear its head in London, in fact Saturday was a gloriously sunny day. I was free in the afternoon so headed off to the plot with my newly delivered peach tree. I bought this from Blackmoor Nurseries and [...]

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New Year, New Structure

January 1, 2008
New Year, New Structure

There’s been stacks of progress over the New Year break and I’m sitting here at the end of the day with a labor intensive back ache. Good job I’m going back to work tomorrow, I need a rest! I popped into a garden centre on my way back to London yesterday and I was tempted [...]

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All Quiet on the Allotment Front

December 2, 2007
All Quiet on the Allotment Front

Well it hasn’t been all that quiet it’s just been so stressful recently that I’ve kind of gone into blogging hibernation. I mentioned in my last post that I had been offered a super shed for use on the plot and I’d roped in the help of my mum, dad and brother to help erect [...]

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