Our new Allotment

Our new Allotment
Originally uploaded by Marj Joly.

Well, things are getting better. We have now been offered one of the spare plots on the land unaffected by the works. We'd held onto them rather than letting them out last year, when we realised we would lose land. So although the plot is very overgrown and no one has managed to cope with it for several years, it is now ours! We are ready!

I also handed over a large part of the allotment administration on Friday. All of this means I can now focus on writing, and get some exercise as there is plenty of digging to do. I love digging. You get to know the soil, the existing plants and weeds, and it keeps you fit too.

Haiku

Feeling somewhat lighter today, after making some difficult decisions about doing less allotment administration, and concentrating more on PhD, oh and not applying for jobs just yet. With freedom comes some more haiku, written on my way to work.


Sunny morning
Cigarette smoke and perfume
Mingle in the train


Dark monolith looms
A man spits by my foot
Windy Corner

After the storm

January Violets
Originally uploaded by Marj Joly.

These lovely violets are everywhere, and remind me I need to dig them up and take them to the new plot.

The mini greehouse did not survive the storm two days ago, but we can probably use parts of it for something or other. Beverley and John's greenhouse is shattered and they lost part of the shed roof, so at least we didnt do to badly. But the shed is going to have to come apart anyway soon when we move.

Dug up the last of the parsnips, am leaving the leeks until the last possible moment, but they are not doing very well, really.

Am fed up with allotment administration, it is never ending.