Long delay since the last update, just picture of the ongoing work in the snow!

Lots of work has been done by guys down at the allotment, a big thankyou to everybody who has helped.


The map is an update of which are our allotments and which are available as of yesterday afternnon (13th March 2007). Darker colouring block of six plots are ours and the lighter shadings are "available"


Click on the map to have a closer look. The council is obliged by law to have a certain amount of allotments so even though a lot of the shaded ones don't actually seem to exist the council "has" to list them.

Basically the site is now pretty full - fantastic!


We've sorted out our wrong allotments issue we were 47 - 50 (hence the blog name) but we are now 48 & 49 and 182 - 185! Nice to meet Gary down an the allotments on Sunday and to bless him with 47 & 50!

It really feels like a community is building down there, which is just fantastic.

Some pictures from the weekend! A lot of helpers this weekend and raelly feels like the plots are becoming a group ownership, which was the plan. A massive thankyou to all that worked so hard. A small flaw has emerged in that I've got a plot wrong and we have been working on 48 & 182 and not 47 & 48. I'll chat to the council about that ;-).

We got to meet some of the neighbours and some more people looking for allotments, all very exciting. There's an allotment meeting this Saturday which I was going to go to but unfortunately can't.

That's me below holding little Isaac whilst lots of friends actually worked :-)

This is Si, king of the castle! He's also known as man-who-needs-barber-visit.

Jono preparing the fire...

Si again with Texas Jason, chainsaw man extrordinaire!

Emma feeding the fire...

Raymond and baby...

And the final log pile, the photo really does not do it justice!

A good few hours on the plots yesterday, working on 47 & 48. A lot more trees down on 47 and the hedge between 47 & 48 really trimmed down (clippings now fill 48!) as well as the shorter hedge between 48 & 49.

Plan is for a few people to go down on Saturday and burn some of the wood.

A big thankyou to Nigel and to Jono for helping out yesterday!

Didn't take camera so no pix. Can see real progress there but an awful lot of work still to do!

Chatting to Neil a friend who wants to get involved on the plots, he said that you can get free old wheelie bins that are a bit knackered from Onyx/Veiola you just need to go and pick them up. As we are going to be doing just a tad of shredding these would come in very useful!

However, upon speaking to Veiola they said that there was no such thing as I suggested and never had been! All a bit strange, anyway going to get Neil to take me there to see for myself.

Jono bought a new pair of lopers which I'm going to be trying out today, meant to be getting down there later but weather is looking a bit grim again!

Also rang the Park Ranger Service and Veiola to see if they could help with removal of bulky items of rubbish and they have said a catergorical no.

There's an allotment meeting hapenning on the 10th and I guess we'll discuss options then for getting rid of the flytipping material that has gathered over the years.