GOOD OLD BLIGHTY

Now imagine it, the sun is going down after warming the countryside, you've been hard at work on the land, the Sports Report music is playing at 5pm on Radio 5, you've got a cup of tea in your hand standing in front of a fire.....and you hear Swindon have come back from 2 nil down at half time to win 4-2 (well of course, it doesn't have to be Swindon, but you get the idea)..Could there be anything more quintessentially British than that? What a nice finish to the day.

Another beautiful afternoon at the allotment on Saturday, with two worm hunters in tow again, enjoying the freedom of exploring the allotments, having worm races and generally mucking about with mud and water. So you can imagine the state they were in after an hour and a half or so when Karen came to take them home, dry them out and clean them up. Straight into a bath for them!

Unfortunately, my 3 prong fork (it did start with 4) soon became a 2 prong fork not long after starting, so it was a little laboured working with that and my spade. (I bought a new one on Sunday to replace it). But, I still managed to finish the final rotating bed and start on the 'strawberry' bed to finish all the digging. As you'll see from the photo's, I'm now about half way through the last one...so round the final bend and just about across the finishing line. PHeeewwwwwww.

I also bashed one of the old corrugated iron sheets into a protective 'brazier' type thing to start to burn away the roots I have been drying out and fully expect to keep this going until the huge pile of discarded mud/roots/weeds/grass, etc has been cleared.

So, now I need to finish off the digging, use the carpet for the paths and get rid of all the old rubbish down to the recycle centre...then we move on to the shed and getting ready for planting...All in all a great day. Nice one, good old Blighty!!!

So here we are from atop the pile of roots, etc looking East back up with the Sun setting behind me.


and here's looking back to the West, with the Sun going down and it starting to get dark.


...and finally the last bed to be finished off. You can see the section left to dig, so not too far to go now.