a weblog with an allotment attached
7 April 2006
(with apologies to Gordon Burns and television’s toughest quiz)
Planning and maintaining an allotment is a tough challenge, testing contestants’ plot holders’ physical and intellectual capabilities to the limit. Have you got what it takes to succeed? In order to calculate your individual allotment factor, you will be tested in the following trials:
Mental Agility [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Review & plan — Clare @ 12:20 pm
2 April 2006
(or, just who exactly is in charge around here anyway?)
In a misguided attempt to meet the diverse weather preferences of Owen and I, mother nature today gave us strong winds and heavy showers. This actually pleases neither of us, so more likely it was a way of humbling us (because losing an entire batch [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Review & plan, Seasons - spring — Clare @ 7:11 pm
1 April 2006
We’re going to Lucca a week on Tuesday for what I am sure will be a truly wonderful holiday. Before then, however, we have ridiculous amounts of chores to do. Here’s what allotment business needs doing:
Negotiate with our neighbour to see if she would be willing to part with the unused bricks in [...]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 6:18 pm
31 January 2006
I’m not normally described as anal. I do not have obsessive compulsive tendencies. I do not have control issues. If it’s not a right angle, I don’t think it’s a wrong angle. I thrive in chaos and mess - ask Owen.
So how come I feel so very smug and satisfied now [...]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 10:55 pm
7 January 2006
It snowed here today for a while. Our undressed Christmas trees sitting out in the garden were covered with snow and looked more festive than they had done decorated. I guess there’s no trumping Mother Nature.
With all the cold and wet it’s been a day for snuggling and reading. I’m something of [...]
Filed under: Review & plan, Today's Bible — Clare @ 6:36 pm
6 January 2006
Pictures have been in very short supply here at P’soup, haven’t they? There was a flurry of photographic activity around August when I was able to borrow my Dad’s camera, but since then it’s all been rather, erm, textual, hasn’t it? But all that is about to change.
Those of you in the know will [...]
Filed under: Hard labour, Review & plan — Clare @ 3:08 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