My idea of a good week off work is a week spent at the allotment, and that is just wot I have done. It was of course the week that David and I were supposed to be getting married and honeymooning, but that hasn’t happened due to *everything*, so we are rescheduled for later in the year.
Two weeks ago today I became the new tenant on a different
plot, having decided to move from Plot 31 on the bottom road. I am now on Plot
16 on the top road, in theory less likely to flood, but closer to Momma and I don’t
have to walk through slop on the roads to get to it. In theory.
In the last 11 days I have been to the plot for 10 of them. The
amount of work that has been done in the past week is absolutely incredible –
most of it by Momma P I think. This week we have:
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David and I moved 25 super massive super heavy
slabs from varying parts of S Birmingham because they were free and new ones would cost about £280
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Momma P emptied my old shed and put everything
in her polytunnel/on her plot
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Water butts emptied and moved
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Hired a man wot can to dig over my new plot and
get rid of the tussocks etc
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Taken down the polytunnel from P31 and carried
it up as a whole frame to P16
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Rebuilt and reinforced and braced the tunnel and used an excessive amount of staples to fix the cover to any available timber
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David started making a slab base, decided it wasn't going to work, so we came up with four more options, and in the end he and Sam
have made a raised solid timber deck, so it is well above the mud, but more
importantly it is level, solid, secure, and my shed should last for a good decade
or so
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I have moved the 25 slabs into varying places on
the allotment, some in the polytunnel, some to make a path at the side of the
shed for waterbutts, some piled for now, and the rest as a path up the middle
of the plot
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Momma P has been rotavating a bit where I am
placing the new beds. She has planted two beds with bulbs. I have planted the
almond tree and maybe half of the garlic.
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Momma P and I have shovelled, shifted, and
bagged up half of the manure & compost, and moved it to P16 and heaped it.
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Between us we have carried maybe 8 or 9 raised
bed frames up from P31 to P16
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Moved the solitary bee houses and bird feeders
and put them back up on P16
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Planted 3 quince bushes and placed the rest
where I want them
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Made very good use of Momma P’s car. Very good
use
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Moved about 10-11 barrow loads of bricks
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Planted the hazel tree and some mixed whips in
the plum tree dead hedge behind the bamboo
I’m sure there’s more but we have done A LOT this week. A lot
a lot.
I have walked at least 3miles every day that I’ve been at the
allotment – the most I’ve walked in a literal year. On one of the days I did about 6miles.
83,363 steps this week. I’ve walked about 29miles in total –
most of them at the allotment, pushing a heavy wheelbarrow, or shifting huge
slabs.
Anyhoo. I haven’t done much else this week. I made an orange
sock and didn’t like it so I started making a stripy pair instead, which are a
lot better.
I am utterly absolutely truly really totally shagged this week.
Utterly knackered. But I am SO PROUD of the amount of work we’ve got done this
past week, especially since last Friday when digger man came and dug over P16
for me.
I want to thank everyone who has helped – Momma P, David,
Sam, Abby, and Louise. And 3 out of our 4 credit cards were also very useful.
The next stage is ordering a shed…………
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| Plot 16 when I took it on two weeks ago |
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| Plot 16 now |
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| Plot 31 two weeks ago |
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| Plot 31 now |
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| No idea how I got this... |
