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
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The arrival of the seed potatoes
The organic seed potatoes have arrived! They look so nice. Lovely, lovely lovely potatoes. I wonder where you will end up being planted?
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Administration and Haiku
Well, things are moving on, but it has been a week of intensive allotment administration and I'm tired. As well as trying to get three chapters of PhD completed to send to supervisors, there have been emails, and emails and more emails, and a few phone calls and texts - all to do with the allotment move. It's like having two full time jobs, except I don't get paid for one of them. Stress levels very high, and all I seem to do is moan. Will it get better? I hope so...I think so. I just want to get digging. Soon. Please.
Anyway the other thing is that we (Lansbury Voices) had the opening of the Renewability exhibition this week at Mile End Art Pavilion. Nice to see our haiku in the brochure and on their web site, but they only selected some of what we had written. The blog does not enable comments, so here is my other Haiku dedicated to our friend Mark at the Lea Rivers Trust.
Wooden Crocodile
Basking in the River Lea
Watch Out Geese!
The exhibition is on until February 11th.
Also just found that the leaflet that sussex wildlife trust produced with an image from our allotment is now online here. So the old allotment lives on!
Anyway the other thing is that we (Lansbury Voices) had the opening of the Renewability exhibition this week at Mile End Art Pavilion. Nice to see our haiku in the brochure and on their web site, but they only selected some of what we had written. The blog does not enable comments, so here is my other Haiku dedicated to our friend Mark at the Lea Rivers Trust.
Wooden Crocodile
Basking in the River Lea
Watch Out Geese!
The exhibition is on until February 11th.
Also just found that the leaflet that sussex wildlife trust produced with an image from our allotment is now online here. So the old allotment lives on!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
After the storm
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.
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.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Potatoes Today!
It is done. The organic seed potatoes are now ordered!
Pink Fir Apple 2kg
Charlotte 3kg
Arran Victory 3 kg
Sante 3kg
This is twice as many as ordered last year, so am being very optimistic.
Once they arrive they will be chitted, and made ready for planting on our new allotment..
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Where not to try and buy organic seed potatoes
Yesterday, while visiting a garden centre in North London, somewhere not too far away from here, I spotted some seed potatoes. I thought great, potatoes will cheer me up! However they weren't organic but I thought, well maybe they will get some in soon, or have them somewhere else in the shop? I was wrong. The manager obviously disapproved. He told me he didn't think you could buy organic seed potatoes anywhere, and then unpleasantly told me that it was not what I put in the ground, it was what I did with it after that mattered. I don't think he liked it when I mentioned I normally got them from chase organics..but as I was here (buying some very expensive plant trays) thought I would ask. He went on to tell me how I did know that what I was buying was really organic! I replied how did I know that the seed potatoes he was selling were really good quality, and had not been treated with chemicals that I didn't want? I left the shop. I will not be going back there again.
When I go shopping I don't expect to be grilled on my beliefs like that. But then I have experienced strange attitudes in other shops in this part of London as well...it's like you go up the hill, and into another world. I'm better off staying at the bottom...and will continue to buy what I want online.
When I go shopping I don't expect to be grilled on my beliefs like that. But then I have experienced strange attitudes in other shops in this part of London as well...it's like you go up the hill, and into another world. I'm better off staying at the bottom...and will continue to buy what I want online.
Sunday, January 7, 2007
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