Archive for December, 2007

At least I did something today.

Been feeling absolutely rubbish all week, had a bit of a cold, but Sunday came around and I had just two hours to dig.  I got on site about 10:00am and I was the only person there, I had a quick look over the patch and it looked like I’d loads more to do than I thought.

I started digging away, still trying to remove the strawberry patch, and I found that the soil was slightly damp and quite hard work to turn over.  I also found there was a load more weeds (Couch grass I think) here, I fill my bucket up in seconds.  I think I’ll have to see if I can have a controlled fire in one of those metal bins with the chimney on the top.

Once nice part of the day was the Robin that seemed to be very friendly and allowed me to get very close.  Whilst he was eating some of my worms, he was also eating grubs and other insects that we’re turned over.  He ate one particularly crunchy fly, I could hear every mouthful!

Robin helping me dig.

 I don’t feel like I’ve achieved much today but I’m just happy I got out, I headed home just before 12pm.

 

 

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The weather’s against me!

It pee’d down all weekend long so again – NO DIGGING.  I sometimes feel like I’m never going to complete it this side of Christmas.

Much Gutment.

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Damn weather!

Had a free day on Saturday, the wife and little one were off on adventures so I thought I’d be able to do finish the old strawberry patch and other ‘rough’ land. 

NO CHANCE.

It rained torrentially for 4 or 5 hours.  During this time I took the car for a MOT (passed woohoo), came home to be confronted with this…..

Flooding

Fortunately not many ’solids’ from the sewer came up, mostly water.  Called the council and they were already working on the blockage on the road out side.

2nd Dec 07 Drains

 

It took about 1 hour for the water to go down, I then had to bleach everything.  So all in all, a rubbish weekend for having an allotment.

Gutted.

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