In the picture above you will see a water tap key and a normal padlock key. I obtained these today when I handed in my payment and signed tenancy agreement at my town council offices. So it’s official - I’m an allotment holder as well as a smallest smallholder! Am going to commission my Mum [...]
I’ve been running a chat forum for a few months now. It’s basically a place where like-minded souls can chat about many subjects including green living, foodie subjects and recipes, rural issues and politics, smallholding, sustainable living and allotmenteering, arts, crafts and traditional trade skills, health & wellbeing, or just partake in a bit of [...]
As the winter is slowly but surely taking it’s grip, I’m starting to feel quite frankly, bloody cold in the evenings. Yet I will NOT have the heating on just yet! Whilst I can still work outside without the aid of a hat and gloves, I won’t put the central heating on. Plus the fact [...]
My local Gardener’s Association has an Autumn Show coming up. It’s just a shame that I don’t have anything to enter. I missed out on the Summer Show too, it just happened that I was at that ‘inbetween’ stage where I’d gobbled everything that I’d pulled out of the ground, and everything else was nowhere [...]





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