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Plot 120108

Sunshine on Saturday saw M and I at the allotment with eight very heavy bags of cow manure (“it’s poo but it doesn’t smell like poo”!). If you are really interested you can click on the photo to go to the original, which is annotated: you can find out just what is in those pots and whose shed that is in the background.

Shortly – literally minutes – after this picture was taken I did a deal with the chap on whose plot I was standing to take the shot (I really must figure out all their names. I am utterly hopeless, and they are all men of the same sort of age: I know Ken, Mike, Colin and Peter but can’t tell Steve, Geoff,  or the chap in the corner plot apart). I casually mentioned that I was considering a gooseberry bush: he said he was going to get rid of some of his as there are really only so many gooseberries one can use: there is now a very large, old, thorny bush right next to those PSB plants at the bottom of the photo. Hoorah!

On Wednesday, assuming Cameron doesn’t spring a surprise business trip on me, I am supposed to be going to the pub with the allotment gang (better work on those names). I am a bit nervous: we might talk about slugs and beans all night. Or it might be fun and to be honest it will do me good – the less I go out, the larger the inertia becomes. The fact that I am already thinking about it shows how out of practice I am: without practice it becomes more and more difficult to speak to people one doesn’t already know well.

2 Responses to “Plot 120108”

  1. VP
    January 15th, 2008 15:40
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    I really must get to grips with Flickr – I loved the annotated bits!

    I’d go with the ‘It might be fun’ part. Why not brush up your best bean and slug stories just in case?

  2. Caroline
    January 18th, 2008 13:12
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    Oooh How did your pub allotment outing go! Am very jealous of that allotment picture. Now I have a house WITH garden, I must start to think about planting stuff – I have inherited big sage & rosemary plants, so that’s a start! Having to fight off the ivy though 🙁
    xx

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