a weblog with an allotment attached
17 February 2006
Alas, we will not be able to tend our plot this weekend as we will be rehearsing strenuously (no special support underwear required) with the Atavar Trio for our debut concert in a month’s time.
The weekend is going to be huge fun (and possibly slightly drunken), but we’re also at the ’starting to get a [...]
Filed under: Enthusings, Fallow — Clare @ 5:24 pm
23 January 2006
As you may have gathered from my last post, I like my creature comforts. There is a down side to this. My garlic still needs to go into the ground, ditto the broad beans and I’m far too embarassed to let on about how much digging and general soil preparation has not been [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 6:39 pm
15 December 2005
Where did the time go? I’m a bad, bad pumpkin souper, neglecting my audience so! (Rather like my allotment.)
Owen and I had planned to spend two days down there this week. We took time off and everything. Did it happen? Well, no. I still had work to do from [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 1:00 pm
25 November 2005
I’m feeling decidedly inadequate regarding my lack of allotment activity. I know that time and weather have been against me a bit, never mind whatever personal obstacles I might have put in the way. But I’m starting to get anxious about what we haven’t done…
I know, I know, it’s important just to do [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 12:19 pm
16 November 2005
In my work meaning and symbolism are everything. We consider people’s relationship with their external world to reflect something of their inner world and so the internal experience can be understood through the metaphor of the external. Still with me?
Well, for example, a person who accidentally drops a plate that shatters might unconsciously [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 1:46 pm
9 November 2005
…with nary a clod turned.
I have onions, garlic and broad beans screaming to be put in the ground and I’ve been nowhere near the plot in a ridiculous amount of time. Dark evenings, long working days and outrageously rainy weekends have not exactly made it easy.
Cross your fingers that it stays dry on Saturday.
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 9:22 pm
18 October 2005
I went down to the site a couple of times over the weekend as I’d arranged with Ben to pay my rent, but he was nowhere to be seen. I’ve tried calling him but there’s no answer on his mobile, so now I’m worried that something may have happened to him. He’s had [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 4:57 pm
13 October 2005
At last! We have a holiday booked! New Year in Florence.
Good food, fantastic wine, beautiful surroundings, great company, a chance to practise my ropey Italian and the opportunity to experience strange new customs, as my Italian teacher tells me that it is considered buona fortuna in Italy to wear red underwear at new [...]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 9:36 pm