a weblog with an allotment attached
30 August 2005
You might have noticed that I’ve been out of blogging action for a while. It’s not like me, is it? Usually I can’t wait to bore you to tears with the minutiae of my allotment life. But it’s been a very stressful few weeks, for a variety of reasons and Pumpkin Soup [...]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 4:37 pm
10 August 2005
For quite some time I have been meaning to start a new category for a collection of different Pumpkin Soup recipes. According to my stats, there have been 287 296 too many visitors to count who have come here because they have been looking for a recipe for pumpkin soup and so far [...]
Filed under: Recipes - P'soup — Clare @ 2:10 pm
7 August 2005
Yesterday we had an experience of the politics of local allotments. Reg, our site Secretary had called a meeting to announce his resignation from the committee which consisted of only him. I think this is supposed to be more momentous than I found it. We were also visited by Chris, the new [...]
Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 9:12 pm
5 August 2005
After I finished work this evening we both went a-digging. Armed with our wheelbarrow and some potato sacks generously given to me by a friendly greengrocer in King’s Heath I decided to finish pulling up the potatoes.
My under gardener was busy taking photographs to start, leaving all the hard work to me. He [...]
Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 9:49 pm
1 August 2005
I am absolutely delighted to welcome you to the first Annual Pumpkin Soup Awards.
It is now a year since we first agreed to take on our allotment and under the circumstances I felt it fitting to celebrate the triumphs and disasters of our work. No red carpets, no posh frocks (well, OK it’s true [...]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 10:13 pm