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A Stormy Kind of Calm

November 16, 2009
A Stormy Kind of Calm

A post storm reccy revealed that the wind had completely denuded the shed of its patchy roofing felt. With only 15 mins allocated for the plot visit there was never going to be time enough for a full repair job. A shed related edginess cast it’s shadow over our corner of the site as a [...]

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Shed to Sedan Chair Makeover

November 1, 2009
Shed to Sedan Chair Makeover

Lynn’s words rang clear in my ears as she dropped me and her Dad off at the plot to get a head start with the shed: “Don’t let him turn it into a ridiculous Sedan Chair!” When we first signed up for the plot, the good ladies of the committee informed us that we wouldn’t [...]

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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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Month in Pictures – December

December 31, 2008
Month in Pictures - December

  Life dried off a little for December and I managed to get down to the plot quite a few times. The grotty dark nights resulted in a couple of torchlit digging sessions but I also found myself shamed into a day of weeding after passing by on the train and noticing the big blocks off lush [...]

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Cold Birthday Drinks

July 16, 2008
Cold Birthday Drinks

I was intrigued yesterday to see a recipe for a shed beer fridge in Allotment Growing Diary Plus, and as it’s my birthday today I thought it was a fine excuse for enjoying cold beer on the plot. The idea is that the terracotta pot cools following evaporation of the absorbed water. It certainly seemed [...]

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Plain Shed, Colourful Bike

July 2, 2008
Plain Shed, Colourful Bike

Thanks for all the graffiti advice in the comments to the last post. I took the train to the plot at the weekend and discovered that every single flat surface (mostly sheds) facing the platform had been scrawled over with the silver spray paint. It looked a bit grim and so I decided that the [...]

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Potato Tasting

June 18, 2008
Potato Tasting

I’ve given up on my first earlies for now, the slugs had their wicked way with the foliage and as a result hindered the tuber growth to pea sized proportions. All the other spuds appear to be getting back handers of performance enhancing drugs though so today I decided to start whipping them out. I [...]

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Purple Throbbing Digitalis

April 19, 2008
Purple Throbbing Digitalis

There was a bit of a water crisis on the site last weekend, a huge leak had been discovered in one of the pipes and a rumour spread suggesting we were going to be without running water forever. Even though it seemed to have been sorted out on my half of the site by the [...]

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