Ok so it doesn’t have desks or computers or a water cooler but allotment politics are a bit like office politics. It sometimes feels like there is a rule book that lots of people have read when we haven’t even found the bookshop.
So what are all the politics about? World peace? The financial markets? Nope, greenhouses. You saw the jigsaw earlier and today we began putting it together. This in itself was a bit of an adventure which involved me having to stand on a pile of pallets to combat being height disadvantaged. But before long we had the frame mostly erected. And it was at this point that a fellow allotmenteer wandered past and in a very casual manner asked whether we had filled a form in for it. We haven’t, but we did know that we had to get one and had asked for a form last week, so no problem there. But then he said, and this was in even more of a casual manner and accompanied with a sucking in of air through the teeth, “it might be too big”.
What?!?! The greenhouse has been in pieces on our plot for over a month now and many have admired it in passing. Many have been told of it’s dimensions. Yet no one has mentioned the rule about the maximum size for greenhouses! Cue a few panicked phone calls to allotment committee members and finally it looks like we are ok with the greenhouse going up (partially because our plot is so barren that we need all the growing space we can get!). Phew. So here it is…
Check out the fence! Finally finished it is our pride and joy. And it is soon to be green.
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