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Friday
12 April
Fred at nursery and Stanley obligingly sleeps in his pram while
I dig a little bit more. Lovely sunshine. Birds singing. Great outdoors
feeling.
Saturday
13 April
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boys babysit while the girls dig the allotment |
Carpets
appearing from everywhere. They are left neatly rolled up next to
what remains of our shed - a pallet with a cupboard on it full of
pots and seeds, and a watering can and a bucket. A sort of island
of hope in the sea of grass. Liz dug for five hours on her own and
got a few precious feet further down the allotment. She says she loves
it down there.
Sunday
14 April
I went down with Dave, Fred and Stanley. I dug. Dave amused the
children. Got an hour's digging and clearing in. Fred dug the earth
on the enormous heap at the far end. I can see this is not going
to be a pastime that can amuse the children all the time. I think
my visits will mostly be in the evenings after they have gone to
sleep. Looking forward to the long summer nights.
Monday
15 April
I have stopped doing Aquarobics on a Monday night (after five years
of it) so I can dig with Liz. Dave and Simon babysit and play Playstation.
It works very well for us all. We dug and chatted from 18.30 'til
sundown at 20.30.
Wednesday
17 April
We hear that we can have the whole allotment. Hurrah. I phone Liz
at her work so she can be excited too.
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| Annie
continues her adventures on the allotment |
Thursday
18 April
Drizzle. Mild. Dug and cleared from 19.00 ish until sundown at 20.30.
Then we lit the old gas camping lamp and dug some more. Bit tricky
getting the hang of lighting the lamp - there were a few large flames
first of all. Great for gardening at night though. We marked out
a little bed across the whole width of the allotment and planted
tree mallows and perennial climbing wallflowers in them - staking
our claim, I suppose.
Friday
19 April
Stephanie says we can have back Jenny's greenhouse that I took down
and gave her two years ago. She had not managed to put it up yet.
Saturday
20 April
Liz planted strawberries in the cleared patch. Simon is making us
a cold-frame.
Sunday
21 April
Liz was digging and clearing for ages. Dave had taken Fred to work
with him for the day so I took Stanley down to the allotment so
L and I could get excited about the greenhouse and plan more of
what we want to do. I couldn't bear doing nothing, so afterwards
I went to town and bought seeds - French beans, cucumbers, Ailsa
Craig tomatoes, and Early Onwards peas. I considered liberating
some currant bushes, but will wait until November for that.
Monday
22 April
Dug and cleared 'til dark at 20.45. Then lit the gaslight and planted
broccoli sprouts from Ron, seed potatoes from Terry, and two rows
of peas. We eventually want to do a four plot rotation scheme, but
at the moment we are just planting things for the fun of it as soon
as we have cleared enough room. It's really exciting.
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