Our first full year came to a close with the possibility of everything being blown away, a category red storm was heading our way and although we were on the edge of the red zone it still didn't fill us with much confidence. Expectation was for devastation and heart break, as it wouldn't have been just the issue of replacing what we had as all things can be replaced. But! it would have been seeing the memories being scattered around the allotment. Our lass is much more sensible and pragmatic in her approach, we would have just re built, at least it would have been nature and not vandals our lass said. Fortunately our green man which is hung over the shed doorway protected us, unlike a lot of our neighbours who had seen fences down, broken glass in green houses and whole polytunnels skip down an allotment or five from its original position. We were very lucky to escape unscathed.
Here is a pictorial catch up of things we have been doing till the end of 2021
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| We made use of the gates our lass found and planters in position |
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| Our lass put down a little path |
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| Fence on one side getting sorted, new posts in and the free edging our lass sourced making a really good divide. |
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| Our lass wanted a bird table which the robin could get to, this is my interpretation of one using off cuts. |
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| Our Guardian of the allotment |
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| It hasn't been very wintry, a rare bit of snow up at the allotment |
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| Our Christmas display, don't know why I didn't take a photo, but we did add baubles to the tree. |
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| Christmas day down the allotment, our lass would like to note that we did have food as well. |
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| Our present from Father Christmas, well technically it was down by the exchange point in the allotment where people put things they don't want. But It was Christmas day and a good find, so lets not spoil things with reality, Thank you Father Christmas we will continue to be good in 2022. |
