21st October, 2012

A Retrospective from:  21st October, 2012:

The weather's still OK - but with the forecast of snow for next weekend (haha!! Snow before the end of October??!!), despite Jane's back not yet mended, we're getting on with the allotment!...

BIG news, though! While measuring up last weekend to find the centre of the allotment for the new fence, we discovered that we've actually been paying for the whole plot! When Sean phoned to find out what's happening, he was told that the person who originally wanted the plot no longer wants, it, so either it'll go back on the waiting list for someone else, or we could just (!!just!!) take it all on, as they had no record of it having being split into 2 anyway!! Slight confusion... but with the prospect of more space for a shed, & forgetting about all the digging & weeding it's taking on the other side, we agreed we'd keep the whole space for ourselves!

So the person who's not been doing the work on the next allotment, actually turns out to be us!!!!

Getting ready for tackling next door:

Setting the fire for the weeds...

Sean contemplating the scale of the job...

The weeds to be tackled...

More weeds...

Sean getting 'tooled up' for the job...

Compost bin filling up, fire ongoing, and first clearance completed...

Piles of weeds & 'interesting stuff' we found under the weeds... ready for the skip...

End of the 'first day' on the second half of the allotment - compare and contrast between the halves...

Really starting to feel we're getting somewhere now... roll on next weekend when we can start to tackle the concrete plinth... oh, didn't we mention the concrete plinth???!!!...