Lucy on November 21st, 2010

I’m sitting here wondering why it’s been so long since I last posted. I have been busy with work and things, but I’ve also been putting off writing for a while. Partly because I haven’t managed to get any new photographs, and partly because I didn’t want to write another woe-is-me post.
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Lucy on February 5th, 2008

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 [...]

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Lucy on January 28th, 2008

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 [...]

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Lucy on October 7th, 2007

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 [...]

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